The Mack May Plan

The ‘Mack May Plan’

For what it’s worth, I would like to see the Mets address three changes in May.

1.    Change SS from Tejada/Q to Flores/Tejada

2.   Determine permanent role of Jenrry Mejia

3.   Begin youth movement in pen

Number one looks like it began last night.

Number two is being determined as I write. Mejia has never been more than a five inning starter so why do members of the Mets coaching staff 

think he can start doing it now? He’s the perfect 8^th or 9^th inning reliever and the quicker the Mets do it, the earlier they can start to solve their back-end pen problems.

(as for what you do here, feel free to return Dice-K for the month of May to see if he can bring back the magic, but you’re still going to have to pick between Rafael Montero and Jacob deGrom come June.)

I’d also like to see Vic Black back by the end of next week. He hasn’t walked a soul in his last four outings and he’s part of the long range plan.

One reliever has to go and, since both Mejia and Black are going to go to the back of the pen, it’s time to release Jose Valverde.

To review…

To AAA:  Quintanilla and Valverde

To Mets:  Flores and Black

To Rotation:  Dice-K

To pen:  Black and Mejia

That’s my May plan.

More to come in June.