{"id":48720,"date":"2020-08-18T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-need-bullpen-to-save-their-season-this-time\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:29:00","slug":"mets-need-bullpen-to-save-their-season-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-need-bullpen-to-save-their-season-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets need bullpen to save their season this time"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets need bullpen to save their season this time<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 18, 2020 |<\/span> 12:29am <\/p>\n

\n Many of them know the journey.<\/p>\n

Now all they must do is carve a radically different route. Think of it like opting for the alternate course on Google Maps.<\/p>\n

The meandering Mets thumped the surprising Marlins on Monday night at Marlins Park, 11-4, a much-needed reboot after the Phillies swept them out of Citizens Bank Park. Luis Rojas\u2019 group pulled off the win despite receiving only 1 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings from its starter, Robert Gsellman, as Chasen Shreve, Jeurys Familia, Brad Brach and Franklyn Kilome teamed to pick up the final 22 outs, allowing three runs \u2014 two of those in the garbage-time ninth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith [Gsellman] still getting stretched out, I think the whole bullpen knows that we need to be ready early,\u201d said Shreve, who picked up the win by retiring all seven batters he faced, five via strikeout.<\/p>\n

While they can\u2019t survive on such a meager contribution every night from their starting pitcher, these Mets (10-14) surely won\u2019t be replicating their immedia<\/a>te predecessors\u2019 rotation excellence that catapulted them from summer obscurity to autumn relevance (and what would\u2019ve been a playoff spot in this year\u2019s postseason setup). From what we\u2019ve seen so far in 2020, these guys will have to get it done with a loaded, superior bullpen to cover up for a starting corps more disheveled than Shooter Flatch at the start of \u201cHoosiers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s much trust that relievers can help us in any given scenario, in any given situation, to win game<\/a>s,\u201d Mets rookie manager Luis Rojas said of his bullpen prior to the game.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s advocating for even more trust. More leaning on the relievers, capitalizing on the 28-man rosters and acknowledging the team\u2019s weakness.<\/p>\n

Look at what went down over the weekend: In all three games, Rojas stuck too long with his starters: Walker Lockett (filling in for Jacob deGrom) on Friday night, Steven Matz on Saturday night and Rick Porcello on Sunday. Monday night therefore presented a welcome contrast, as Rojas lifted the starter-turned-reliever-turned-starter Gsellman with two outs in the second inning, Marlins on first and second and the Mets owning a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stress on the first inning and the second inning, the struggle of the command, I thought we were seeing him almost at a point where he was getting tired by two innings of work,\u201d Rojas said of Gsellman. \u201cThis is a guy that we\u2019re just starting to stretch and that\u2019s immediately when we went to Shreve.\u201d The southpaw Shreve entered and fanned lefty hitter Matt Joyce to escape the jam, setting the tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have so many guys down there who can throw multiples,\u201d Shreve said. \u201cIt\u2019s actually really nice and reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeGrom app<\/a>ears ready to return to the rotation on Wednesday night, Rojas said on Monday, and the manager refused to commit to the flailing Matz taking his turn on Thursday night. Between health concerns and performance worries, things remain greatly in flux for this group. The Mets\u2019 starters now sport a 5.54 ERA, 14th in the National League entering late action Monday, while their relievers\u2019 4.55 placed them seventh.<\/p>\n

When the 2019 Mets stunningly turned their season around with a 40-21 stretch to close out the schedule, their starters tallied a 3.06 ERA, second-best in the NL, and their relievers 4.36, eighth-best (thanks, FanGraphs). That\u2019s a better way to go, no matter how much Edwin Diaz\u2019s meltdowns or Mickey Callaway\u2019s head-scratchers haunt you. With Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard and Zack Wheeler all gone, though, a re-enactment of that revival appears nearly impossible, no matter how much rookie David Peterson helps pick up for Gsellman\u2019s unsteady return to the rotation, Porcello\u2019s underwhelming numbers or Michael Wacha\u2019s physical unreliability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a strange year,\u201d Michael Conforto said Monday, \u201cbut I think we all can pull things from last year when we were playing at our best. \u2026 We have to have fun out there. That part of the year was when everything kind of melted away.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Rojas doesn\u2019t build on Monday\u2019s action and sufficiently manage his club\u2019s strengths, the Mets\u2019 high 2020 ambitions, not to mention quite possibly the Wilpon era, will melt away in embarrassing fashion.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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