A strategy of any winning team is to have effective substitutes.
Your best hope is that your subs and your regulars are virtually indistinguishable in terms of effectiveness.
In reality, that is a pipe dream.
Regulars are regulars because they are BETTER.
But your substitutes should not be extremely worse - because then you cannot be a winning club, unless everyone on your team is named Cal Ripken Jr.
The Mets have had a lot of "extremely worse."
Their strategy is "maybe we'll get lucky here."
Well, let me not be the judge of that.
I will lay out the performers here, and you let me know how it is working out.
CALL UPS IN 2018-19:
PAUL SEWALD - 0-13, 5.19 lifetime, 127 innings, 106 games, 17 HRs, 2 for 7 in saves.
TYLER BASHLOR - 0-4, 4.19 lifetime, 34 innings, 26 outings, 7 HRs.
COREY OSWALT - 3-4, 6.43 lifetime. 71 IP, 15 HRs.
CHRIS FLEXEN - 3-10, 8.70 lifetime, 60 IP, 2.23 WHIP, 13 HRs.
PJ CONLON - 0-0, 8.22 ERA lifetime, 8 IP.
TIM PETERSON - 2-2, 5.56 ERA lifetime, 34 IP, 27 outings.
JACOB RHAME - 2-3, 6.65 ERA lifetime, 42 games, 45 innings, 11 HRs.
Signee for 2019:
LUIS AVILAN (2019 only) - 1-0, 9.28 ERA, 10.1 IP, 2.06 WHIP.
Guys no longer here, but who pitched in 2018:
Gerson Bautista (0-1, 4.1 IP, 12.46 ERA)
Buddy Baumann (0-1, 3 IP, 24.00 ERA)
Bobby Wahl ((0-1, 5.1 IP, 10.13 ERA)
Chris Beck (0-0, 5.23 ERA, , 10.1 IP, 9 BB)
A. J. Ramos (2-2, 6.41, 19.2 IP)
Those guys above have combined to go 13-41, with a collective ERA somewhere above 6.00. Making them:
SUBPAR! OR IS IT SUB-SUBPAR???
The only guy called up in 2018 and 2019 for the pen who has thrown more than a few innings and done well?
Daniel Zamora - the lefty is 1-0, 2.31, 11.2 IP, 21 games, 20 Ks. Excellent.
So, folks, what do you think of the Mets' "try to get by in the bullpen" strategy?
I sure know what opposing teams think about it - DUDES, IT'S PARTY TIME!!
6 comments:
A Mets fans thing - they read an article like this, and say, "But wait, it's even worse...for instance..."
Lots of "for instances" when you're 8-16 in your last 24 games, while the cross towners are on a 16-6 streak with half their A team missing.
Thomas -
STOP looking across the street. They run a different organization, operate differently, and have nothing but good luck up there.
We don't and we are not them.
Now...
Adding CF Carlos Gomez is a gimmee.
Adding Lowrie (when ready) is a gimmee
Adding AA-Bing SP to rotation fill in
Adding B-Mets RPs Gilliam and Zanghi
Just saying...
Mack, it just seems that there must not be a cloud over guys in the Bronx - wind at their back - the Mets seem to always have winds in their face. Baffling.
That said, Gilliam could be in Queens by some time in June at this rate.
Kay too - his innings will be limited (just 123 last year, so this year, 160 max?), so why not have him go out of the Mets pen in mid year? Those 2 could really help.
Joe Zanghi has to serve time in Syracuse, IMO, but has been very good in AA so far. Matt Blackham, too - 20 Ks in 12.2 IP - but Bashlor pitched like that in AA not too long ago.
But what do I know about relievers? I loved Akeel Morris a few years ago, and now he is out of baseball.
Yes, Gomez should be here TODAY and Broxton gone - Gomez did not play yesterday, so my guess is those wheels are in motion.
And Tebow got what turned out to be the game winning hit, a pinch double, yesterday. Can he climb off the ropes?
Part of the malaise could be fan restlessness. Hansel Robles was kind of run out of town....but career, he is 20-15, 3.93. Compare his 20-15 to Sewald's 0-13.
Tebow needs to do the right thing. He's making tons of money in ads and football...
Move on Tim.
Yesterday's double by Tebow was like completing a Hail Mary pass - but he still trails by 3 touchdowns, with not a lot of time on the clock.
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