One major factor that MLB teams must deal with during the long season is injuries. Often it is true that the most successful teams in a season are also the ones who have had the fewest players lost to time on the disabled list. The current baseball season is barely a month old, but already contenders like Arizona and Milwaukee are having to compensate for valuable players lost to long-term injuries. How teams deal with those variables is something the weekly Baseball Swarm has to account for in predicting games.

One MLB team that certainly knows about injuries derailing a season is the New York Mets. Last season they bottomed out after losing most of their pitching staff to catastrophic injuries during the year. This season, the Mets are healthy, and they’re contending for first in the competitive National League East.

The Mets are playing at San Diego tonight, looking to rebound after losing two of three in St. Louis. The swarm, mindful of a potential pitching mis-match (the Mets have ace Jacob deGrom pitching against journeyman Clayton Richard) made this a high-confidence selection. The replay above shows a fast consensus arrived at; the swarm also picked the Metropolitans as their best bet of the night over both Boston and Houston.

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