Let’s do some junior detective work across the Mets and the commerce deadline.
David Stearns on Monday described the bullpen as his precedence between now and July 31, which is comprehensible given the Mets this season have misplaced 4 key contributors: Max Kranick, Dedniel Núñez and lefties A.J. Minter and Danny Younger.
On Monday evening, the Mets obtained six one-run innings from their bullpen — an apparent constructive in rallying to beat the Angels. However the downturn by the Mets started June 13, and people six innings gave them 139 ²/₃ pen innings since then (second most within the majors) and even with these shutout frames, the aid ERA in that point was 5.61 (third worst).
Thus, even with a robust small-sample return from lefty Brooks Raley, the Mets ideally should add at the very least two relievers, one a southpaw.
