Pen Overkill

By my count, (and I’m sure a couple of these guys are gone…) here are the relief pitchers still in camp:

Mets (12): Pedro Feliciano – Nelson Figueroa – Ryota Igarashi – Fernando Nieve


Francisco Rodriquez – Jenrry Mejia - Hisanori Takahaski – Sean Green


Kiko Calero – Bobby Parnell – Arturo Lopez – Elmer Dessens






Buffalo (14): Clint Everts – Eddie Kunz – Pat Misch – R.A. Dickey


Jack Egbert – Bobby Livingston – Carlos Muniz – Henry Owens


Mike O’Connor – Jose De La Torre – Travis Blackley – Neil Musser


John Lugan – Emary Frederick






Binghamton (7): Nick Waechter – Brant Rustich – Roy Merritt – Stephen Clyne


Nick Carr – Edgar Ramirez – Tim Stronach






St. Lucie (7): Rhiner Cruz – James Fuller – Michael Powers – Jimmy Johnson


Will Morgan – William Rackel – Lachlan Hodge






Savannah (8): Jake Goldberg - Anthony Whitenton - Brad Burns - Eric Turgeon


Tyler Howe - Brandon Sage - Johan Figuereo - Phillips Orta






Extended Camp (34): Kelvim Escobar – Josh Stinson - Omar Perez - Tim Erickson


Wes Wrenn - Adam O'Neil - Michael Johnson - Elvys Quezada


Tony Felix - John Church - Steve Cheney - Samuel Martinez


Samuel Tavares - Elvin Ramirez - Pedro P.Martinez - John Madden


Thomas Chism - Daniel Carela - Dan McDonald - Brian Valenzuela


Julio Bello - Jose Hernandez - Thomas Peredes - Brian Needham


Jose Bierd - Santiago Valdez - Chris Hilliard - Mitchell Houck


Bobby Gagg - Gabriel Zavala - Trey Rackel - Michael Hebert


Ramiro Peralta - Luis Rojas


That’s 48 pitchers for five teams… averaging over nine pitchers in each pen.


And then, there are 34 more left in extended camp for the three short season teams, and that doesn’t even add in the new draft class or the crew coming over from last year’s DL and VSL team.


Too many pitchers.


Lots of decisions.