The pitching market waits for no one.

While the New York Mets were busy recalibrating their offseason wishlist, the Toronto Blue Jays kicked down the door and threw $210 million at Dylan Cease. That is a massive number for a guy coming off a 4.55 ERA, but smart teams know that surface stats are lying to you half the time. Cease had an 80th percentile chase rate and a 95th percentile whiff rate last year. He was essentially a Ferrari with a flat tire, and Toronto just paid to fix the tire.

For the Mets, this is a wake-up call. The top shelf of the free agent aisle is getting cleared out, and their rotation currently looks like a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing.

A Rotation Full of Question Marks

David Stearns has his work cut out for him. You look at the current depth chart an

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