Imagine your favorite team has to move its best reliever into the starting rotation due to a rash of crazy stuff making it a necessity, and a not-ready-for-prime-time minor league pool of "talent".
Imagine someone offered you a guy who is 2-1, 2.25 ERA, 2 saves, and 34 Ks in 16 innings.
Not to mention 137 career saves.
Interested?
His name?
Edwin Diaz.
Nobody's perfect.
What Mets reliever has ever been perfect?
Can't think of one.
If the Mets get to the playoffs, it will have to be because the good Edwin is showing up.
If they have success in the playoffs, it will have to be because the good Edwin is showing up.
Is he utterly infuriating at times?
Sure.
But even in 1986, the Mets managed to lose 59 times.
So, let me clue you in....
Life ain't perfect.
We got Edwin.
Deal with it.
More than that, my suggestion?
Sit back and enjoy it.
Guys can go bad ... Hansel Robles has allowed 17 runs in 11 AIP this year.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Montearo has 7 saves in 9 games.
Something no one has made a comment on, as far as I can see, is the "two Edwin Diazes" phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteComing into a game in a hurry, entering in the 7th or 8th of withmen on base, he has been awful.
Used in his usual role,entering at the start of an inning, usually the 9th, he has been the guy we traded for.
Using him (almost) exclusively in the latter role, we do indeed have the closer we traded for, the one with more saves for Seattle in 2018 than any Mets RP has EVER had.
Bill, a lot of truth there. They say it is darkest just before dawn. Maybe dawn has arrived for Diaz.
ReplyDeleteRelief pitchers are too hot and cold from season to season. For my money, I may be interested for a RP as a FA. Someone who has established himself over a few seasons.. but to give up a number of top tier minor leaguers in a trade seems to never pan out..
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I just think how many minors relievers have been brought up and traded for by the Mets. So few are really capable. Most don’t make it, and the guys who do may combine to go 1-21 like Sewald and Bashlor.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Gilliam will be good...but they haven’t called him up, so Who knows...seeing is believing.
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ReplyDeleteLast night, of course Edwin made it a little hairy, but he pitched a scoreless 9th and fanned the side. ENJOY!
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