“Last year was not a fluke,” Reed Garrett said in a recent interview down in Port St. Lucie. He meant the Mets as a whole, but he’s also out to prove 2024 wasn’t a fluke season for himself, either.
Garrett came into the 2024 season having thrown just 44 1⁄3 big league innings—and not particularly good ones. After returning from two years pitching in Japan, he had some success in the minor leagues with the Orioles, but that didn’t stick at the major league level and the Orioles designated him for assignment in June of 2023, at which point he was picked up by the Mets.