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Old 08-19-2016, 11:25 AM   #7037
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And there isn't any real reason to be optimistic about the team next year. But people want to keep pointing to the pitching. People said that in the second half this year they'd have deGrom, Thor, Harvey, Matz, and Wheeler all together.

Well Wheeler never threw a pitch in the big leagues this year. Harvey sucked and now has a potentially career-derailing TOS injury. Matz has pitched through bone spurs in his elbow for two months and now is being shut down with a shoulder injury. Thor's also pitching through elbow bone spurs and is clearly a Tommy John candidate. That leaves you with only deGrom.

You can't build a team entirely on pitching anymore because pitchers are far more injury prone than they used to be. And good luck thinking the offense will bail them out as Sandy loses Cespedes and Walker to free agency and continues to try to assemble a team of free-swinging hackers.
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