NY Post · Apr 20, 2015
Mets will need to get creative with bullpen after losing Blevins
Mets reliever Jerry Blevins is examined by manager Terry Collins after being hit by a liner in the seventh inning on Sunday. Blevins suffered a fractured left forearm on the play. Photo: Bill Kostroun One of the Mets’ strengths over the season’s glorious first two weeks is suddenly looking like a major weakness.
Left-handed specialist Jerry Blevins, so integral to the Mets’ 10-3 start, will be out indefinitely after suffering a fractured left forearm — the result of a line drive off the bat of Marlins leadoff man Dee Gordon, and the team doesn’t have a replacement for him.