No they weren't. Their pitching was bad. Worse than St. Louis for sure. Find me a single statistic that supports this, and maybe you'll have an argument. Mets had a better ERA, better ERA+, fewer hits given up, more strikeouts, more shutouts, more CGs, fewer HRs allowed, heck, more wins and saves, if you follow that crowd. Yeah, but how much of that was when they had Pedro?