The less-trumpeted signings of David Robertson and Adam Ottavino now loom large for the Mets if they hope to keep their World Series hopes alive
Edwin Diaz was diagnosed with a season-ending torn patellar tendon in his right knee, a day after suffering the injury after a World Baseball Classic game.Robertson owns plenty of big-game closing experience and likely will receive the lion’s share of the duties in Diaz’s spot. But Ottavino can slide into that spot as needed, giving the Mets a workable dynamic.
The Mets are going to need Megill one way or another this season, but Jose Quintana’s impending bone graft to cover a benign lesion on his fractured fifth rib on his left sideAs much as the Mets like David Peterson for his solid work last season filling in, there is substantial thought about giving the job to Megill, even at the expense of having a lefty in the rotation.
That isn’t to minimize what Peterson meant to the club last year, when he started 19 games and pitched to a 3.86 ERA in that role. That is certainly acceptable for a back-of-the-rotation starter.that is hard to ignore: a five-game stretch in April in which he pitched to a 1.93 ERA and appeared worthy of holding deGrom’s spot in the rotation.
The past two seasons, the Mets have received mixed results from their “trade deadline acquisitions” that were returning from injuries. It wasn’t much of a “trade deadline acquisition” for a team that unraveled over the final two months of the season.Scherzer raised the idea of playing the WBC during the season when asked this week about the event’s timing. Scherzer is among the pitchers not participating out of fear of injury from ramping up too quickly in spring training.
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