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Rebooting the Pen

Edgy MD Oct 26 2022 11:33 AM

Lost among discussion on whether the Mets should be renewing their relationship with Edwin Diaz is the reality that he's not the only 2022 reliever not under contract for next season. The team's four relievers with their biggest workloads from 2022 are looking at free agency before heading into 2023. Of the 25 relievers who appeared out of the pen for the the team this past year, those four and five others have expiring contracts, while five more are already gone. [th]Rank[/th] [th]Name[/th] [th]IP[/th] [th]ERA[/th] [th]W[/th] [th]L[/th] [th]SV[/th] [th]HLD[/th] [th]BS[/th] [th]BB[/th] [th]SO[/th] [th]fWAR[/th] [th]WPA[/th] [th]Status[/th] 1 Adam Ottavino 65 2/3 2.06 6 3 3 18 3 16 79 1.1 0.53 Free Agent 2 Seth Lugo 65 3.60 3 2 3 16 3 18 69 0.2 0.03 Free Agent 3 Edwin Diaz 62 1.31 3 1 32 4 3 18 118 3.0 3.65 Free Agent 4 Trevor Williams 51 2.47 1 1 1 1 1 15 55 0.7 -0.66 Free Agent 5 Joely Rodriguez* 50 1/3 4.47 2 4 0 9 0 26 57 0.4 0.04 =#7030A0]Arbitration Eligible 6 Drew Smith 46 3.33 3 3 0 14 2 15 53 -0.1 -0.30 =#000000]Controlled 7 Chasen Shreve* 26 1/3 6.49 1 1 0 4 1 10 29 -0.3 -0.70 =#FFC000]Released 7/8 8 Trevor May 25 5.04 2 0 1 6 0 9 30 0.1 -0.17 Free Agent 9 Adonis Medina 23 2/3 6.08 1 0 1 0 0 6 17 0.0 0.32 =#000000]Controlled 10 Tommy Hunter 22 1/3 2.42 0 1 0 1 0 6 22 0.0 0.35 Free Agent 11 Stephen Nogosek 22 2.45 1 1 0 0 0 7 21 -0.1 -0.16 =#000000]Controlled 12 Mychal Givens 19 2/3 5.03 1 1 0 1 1 6 20 -0.1 -0.24 Free Agent 13 Colin Holderman 17 2/3 2.04 4 0 0 1 0 7 18 0.4 0.30 =#FFC000]Traded to PIT, 7/22 14 David Peterson 14 2/3 3.68 1 0 0 1 1 7 16 -0.1 0.22 =#000000]Controlled 15 Yoan Lopez 11 5.73 1 0 0 0 0 5 10 -0.1 0.31 =#7030A0]Arbitration Eligible 16 Sean Reid-Foley 10 5.40 0 0 0 0 0 7 8 -0.1 -0.12 =#757171]Controlled but, Like, out until at Least Mid-May 17 Jake Reed 6 11.37 1 0 0 0 0 6 6 -0.2 -0.11 =#FFC000]Claimed off Waivers, 7/13 18 Tylor Megill 6 6.00 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0.0 -0.09 =#000000]Controlled 19 Alex Claudio* 3 1/3 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.0 0.01 Minor League Free Agent 20 Bryce Montes de Oca 3 1/3 10.80 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 0.1 -0.02 =#000000]Controlled 21 Nate Fisher* 3 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0.0 0.13 =#000000]Controlled 22 R.J. Alvarez 2 1/3 11.57 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 -0.3 -0.23 Minor League Free Agent 23 Darin Ruf 2 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 =#000000]Under Contract 24 Sam Clay 1 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0.0 0.00 =#FFC000]Claimed off Waivers, 7/10 25 Rob Zastryzny* 1 9.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 0.01 =#FFC000]Claimed off Waivers, 8/25 [th][/th] [th]Others[/th] [th]IP[/th] [th]ERA[/th] [th]W[/th] [th]L[/th] [th]SV[/th] [th]HLD[/th] [th]BS[/th] [th]BB[/th] [th]SO[/th] [th]fWAR[/th] [th]WPA[/th] [th][/th] 26 Mike Montgomery 0 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 Minor League Free Agent 27 John Curtiss 0 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 =#0070C0]Team Option 28 Phillip Diehl 0 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 Minor League Free Agent 29 Locke St. John 0 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.00 Minor League Free Agent

So, assuming guys with options and guys with arbitration eligibility are all retained, if the season began today, the bullpen looks like:


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Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 26 2022 11:52 AM Re: Rebooting the Pen

Bryce Montes de Oca needs to be issued a number like 91 or 98 and get a reputation for pitching inside. That's a recipe for an All-Star appearance. I've been waiting for the Lugo bubble to pop for years, it could be time to say goodbye, May, maybe. Diaz would be nice to have around for another few seasons.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 26 2022 01:07 PM Re: Rebooting the Pen

I think they're done with Trevor May. There will be a lot of competition for Diaz. Interesting that the Mets, with so many pending free agents, didn't look to extend any of them, at least as far as we know. (We do know that they didn't succeed in extending any of them.) Locking up a few of their players would have provided that much less uncertainty going into the offseason. Are we going to have a sister topic for "Rebooting the Starting Rotation"?

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 26 2022 01:13 PM Re: Rebooting the Pen

so much may depend on how they Reboot the Front Office with Billy getting a new boss

Fman99 Oct 26 2022 01:39 PM Re: Rebooting the Pen

I most hope to see Diaz and Ottavino in Mets colors for 2023. Williams and Drew Smith seem like good choices to bring back too. I also think Lugo is on borrowed time but wouldn't be abject to his return.

Edgy MD Oct 26 2022 01:47 PM Re: Rebooting the Pen

One guy I failed to list, who is a candidate for both boots, is Joey Lucchesi.

Lefty Specialist Oct 26 2022 06:55 PM Re: Rebooting the Pen

#1 priority for this team is Diaz. It's be nice to pick up a serviceable lefty for the pen, too. I don't really trust Joely Rodriguez, even though he had his moments. I'm OK with Ottavino coming back. Smith is a box of chocolates. I want to see Adonis Medina get more work, he's got good stuff and that save against the Dodgers showed he had balls of steel. Peterson and Megill may very well be starters next year; I don't think they're really bullpen pieces. I'm guessing Williams will look for a rotation job with another team, but if he wants to come back in the same role I'd be pleased. Trevor May is bad at his job. He should go elsewhere. And take Mychal Givens with him.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 26 2022 07:07 PM Re: Rebooting the Pen

I don't know what to think other than I think that Diaz is a priority, but like Grimm already said, lotsa teams are gonna go after him. Lesser relievers just aren't that reliable and also, the Mets have been just awful, crappy, awful at developing reliable relievers, going back many, many seasons now, back to the depths of the Madoff crisis. On top of that, they've been putting out a parade, a chorus line of relievers over the years, enough to seemingly field two football teams worth of relievers -- all forgettable and interchangeable. P.J. Conlon? Jacob Rhame? Scott Copeland? Neil Ramirez? Jamie "Lizard Tongue" Callahan? Donnie Hart? Brooks Pounders?