Setting Pen to Paper

[Edgy MD]

Drawn from many sources, bringing little fanfare as they arrived, your 2024 New York Mets bullpen is currently fourth in all the land.

Their league-leading strikeout numbers are particularly impressive, and hopefull augur the notion that their performance to date is perhaps more sustainable than those of their peers.

Rk Team W L ERA S IP BB SO WHIP 1 New York Yankees 12 5 2.31 16 132.2 50 110 1.10 2 Cleveland Guardians 12 5 2.44 13 151.1 45 167 1.02 3 Seattle Mariners 5 4 2.79 8 116.0 40 118 1.06 4 Detroit Tigers 13 9 2.81 11 128.1 49 117 1.12 5 New York Mets 12 6 2.88 10 137.1 66 178 1.19 6 Los Angeles Dodgers 7 7 3.24 13 153.0 49 136 1.05 7 Boston Red Sox 7 10 3.29 8 145.0 46 137 1.20 8 Atlanta Braves 10 6 3.32 10 114.0 35 107 1.24 9 Oakland Athletics 8 4 3.47 10 150.1 55 157 1.24 10 Baltimore Orioles 9 4 3.51 12 123.0 46 129 1.15 11 Minnesota Twins 9 5 3.51 13 133.1 52 165 1.20 12 Washington Nationals 8 6 3.65 12 135.2 55 132 1.36 13 St. Louis Cardinals 5 9 3.69 12 127.0 38 130 1.20 14 Kansas City Royals 8 7 3.87 11 121.0 56 96 1.44 15 Milwaukee Brewers 14 4 3.87 12 142.0 54 130 1.30 16 Pittsburgh Pirates 9 7 3.87 10 125.2 55 139 1.24 17 San Diego Padres 7 6 4.02 12 145.2 52 134 1.25 18 Chicago White Sox 3 11 4.22 6 143.0 73 128 1.47 19 Cincinnati Reds 6 7 4.51 6 127.2 56 136 1.32 20 Texas Rangers 10 6 4.59 9 131.1 65 131 1.32 21 Philadelphia Phillies 6 4 4.61 12 113.1 47 123 1.41 22 Chicago Cubs 10 9 4.64 11 145.1 70 147 1.41 23 Arizona Diamondbacks 5 8 4.67 8 140.2 62 114 1.41 24 Colorado Rockies 6 8 4.68 4 136.2 66 110 1.52 25 Houston Astros 5 11 4.71 3 135.2 63 128 1.42 26 Miami Marlins 4 11 4.74 5 161.1 71 154 1.42 27 Tampa Bay Rays 11 6 4.80 11 150.0 79 138 1.41 28 Los Angeles Angels 5 3 4.93 8 133.1 58 128 1.28 29 San Francisco Giants 5 7 4.99 6 144.1 56 145 1.37 30 Toronto Blue Jays 6 4 5.23 10 127.1 55 106 1.41

Rk Player W L ERA G S IP BB SO WHIP 1 Brooks Raley 1 0 0.00 8 0 7.0 3 9 0.71 2 Danny Young 1 0 0.00 2 0 3.0 3 3 1.67 3 Josh Walker 0 0 0.00 3 0 3.0 1 3 0.67 4 Sean Reid-Foley 1 0 0.00 8 0 6.2 6 11 1.05 5 Reed Garrett 5 0 0.47 13 1 19.0 9 32 1.05 6 Jorge López 0 0 2.04 18 2 17.2 6 15 1.13 7 Tyler Jay 0 0 2.25 2 0 4.0 1 1 1.50 8 Edwin Díaz 0 1 2.45 14 5 14.2 4 22 0.82 9 Drew Smith 1 0 2.70 10 1 10.0 7 11 1.70 10 Adam Ottavino 1 1 3.14 14 1 14.1 5 24 0.98 11 Jake Diekman 1 1 3.86 14 0 11.2 8 17 1.11 12 Dedniel Núñez 0 0 4.26 4 0 6.1 2 10 1.26 13 Michael Tonkin 1 2 5.14 5 0 7.0 2 6 1.43 14 Grant Hartwig 0 0 6.00 2 0 3.0 2 1 1.00 15 Cole Sulser 0 0 9.64 4 0 4.2 3 7 1.93 16 Yohan Ramírez 0 1 11.81 3 0 5.1 4 6 2.44

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I read somewhere today that Yohan Ramirez has suffered among the highest declines in fastball velocity they've checked this year.

What happened to Smith? And hen's he coming back?

[Edgy MD]

Smitty was DL'd with shoulder inflammation. He had a rehab appearance with Syracuse last night, and since he's starting right out at AAA, I imagine he'll get two more appearances and be a Met by next weekend at the latest.

Assuming all goes well, of course.