Mets starting duo is better than Yankees in NY

CodeListDecember 17, 2022

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After the signing of Justin Verlander in the metsthings in the Big Apple were tilting in favor of the Metropolitans in terms of the starting pitchingwho also acquired international free agent Kodai Senga to thus make a highly respected 1-2-3.

This Thursday, the yankees They were not left behind and made an official agreement for six years and 162 million dollars with the left-handed Carlos Rodon. The big question now New York is: which of the two teams has the best starting duo, Yankees or Mets?

Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander (Mets): With Verlander in the rotation, the Mets still have the best pair of aces in baseball in 2023. Scherzer and Verlander have six Cy Young Awards between them. Yes, Verlander is 39 and Scherzer is 38, but they are still two of the most dominant pitchers in baseball. Verlander just won his third Cy Young Award, going 18-4 with a major league-best 1.75 ERA and 185 strikeouts for the Astros in 2022. Scherzer was 11-5 with a 2.29 ERA and 173 strikeouts for the Mets. Now the two former Tigers rotation partners are reunited in New York.
Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodon (Yankees): The Yankees are vying with the Mets for the No. 1 spot on the list. And with Cole (32) and Rodon (30) both much younger than Verlander and Scherzer, it’s easy to see the Yankees’ new duo end up as the best in New York — and in the big leagues. The Yankees already had one of the best starting pitching tandems in the league when it was Cole and Nasty Nestor Cortes. Now that it’s lefty power-throwing Rodon, who has a 2.67 ERA and 12.2 K/9 over the past two seasons, that 1-2 hit is even better. Cole had an MLB-best 257 strikeouts last season; Rodón ranked third with 237. There are 494 K between them.

ismael hernandez

I have graduated from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara since 2012, graduated as a Bachelor of Communication Sciences. After having been a radio announcer for some years in the “Perla Tapatía”, I returned to my hometown, Mazatlán, Sinaloa and was hired by Periódico El Debate in May 2019. My first months in El Debate were writing articles for the vertical: “Mi Bolsillo”, however, in September of the same year I became part of the powerful lineup of “Al Bat”, where I still continue to work as a web journalist. In “Al Bat”, we truthfully present to our readers the most relevant news in the world of baseball, mainly from the MLB, winter leagues from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the Asian continent. I am a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League and the Boston Red Sox in the American League. My big dream is to see the Fenway Park stadium, the historic site of the “Red Sox”.

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