2020 Mets takeaways: The bullpen

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty ImagesWith the Mets’ 2020 season officially over, we thought it would be good to look back at how the various components of the team performed over the course of sixty games. It’s hard to draw significant conclusions from such a short span of time—a bit more than one-third of a normal regular season—but to the extent that useful information can be gleaned from this season, we will try.

And what better place to start than the bullpen? The Mets’ bullpen had a 4.60 ERA that ranked 18th in Major League Baseball, which is hardly something to celebrate but still a marked improvement over how they performed as a group just last year. Their 4.74 FIP ranked 21st,…