If the Mets fancy themselves as competitors for the 2018 season, they’re going to need help with their pitching staff. There’s a need for starting pitcher, too, but there’s still plenty of heavy lifting to be done when it comes to the team’s bullpen. With the acquisition of Anthony Swarzak on what looks like a reasonable contract, the Mets have a decent core of a bullpen in place: Jeurys Familia, AJ Ramos, Swarzak, and Jerry Blevins.
The preferable route at this point would be that the Mets pony up the dollars needed to bring in some of the better free agents out there on the bullpen market—let’s say two of Addison Reed, Wade Davis, and Greg Holland.