If tomorrow Bud Selig called for a mercy rule and let the Astros and Marlins—the two worst teams in baseball—combine their teams, what would that look like? And how good would they be?

The pitching would be much improved, for sure. By cherry-picking a five-man rotation and three relievers from the two rosters, we got a WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) of 1.25, entering Sunday. of 3.31. That's considerably better than the Marlins (1.31) or the Astros (1.51). The closest current team in WHIP to our "Marstros"...