Which Mets relief pitcher should set up Tyler Clippard and Jeurys Familia?
The month of August is about halfway over, and this sentence is still true: The Mets’ bullpen has been very good this year. Mets relief pitchers have a 2.94 ERA, the sixth-best mark in Major League Baseball this season. They have done so using an eclectic mix of pitchers—seventeen in total, nine of whom have had a 3.15 ERA or better in the big leagues.
A bunch of those pitchers are not part of the current bullpen. Jerry Blevins, Jack Leathersich, and Buddy Carlyle are out for the rest of the season with various injuries.