Mets Call Up Jonathan Pintaro To Bolster Bullpen

[Steve Drumwright]

 

The New York Mets continue to churn the back end of the bullpen.

Right-handed reliever Jonathan Pintaro was called up Wednesday from Triple-A Syracuse by the Mets, with right-handed reliever Joey Gerber was sent down to Triple-A.

Gerber pitched two innings in Tuesday's 7-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, giving up a run on three hits with a strikeout. It was his second appearance after being called up June 3 and third of the season after an early-April promotion.

Pintaro is up for the second time after making two appearances in late May. In 3⅔ innings, he didn't allow a run or a hit with one walk and three strikeouts. In 19 games and 31⅓ innings at Triple-A this year, Pintaro has a 10.6% walk rate and 30.9% strikeout rate.

 

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[The Hot Corner]

As soon as he makes an appearance and pitches an inning, they will option him back to Syracuse and bring Gerber back.  Baseball needs to make some changes, this constant turn over is ridiculous.  I would rather they just expand the active roster to 28 players and put a limit on the number of times a players can be sent up and down with it being injury related.

[seawolf17]

Agree. I keep saying that this can't be good for guys, flying all over the place on a dime like this.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I think it was 3 of Gerber's first 5 pitches were absolutely scorched last night. I did enjoy the leg kick.

Pintaro is the fat kid who showed up briefly last year wearing No. 91. He may have already pitched for the team this year, I dunno

[Frayed Knot]

1 hour ago, The Hot Corner said:

 Baseball needs to make some changes, this constant turn over is ridiculous.  I would rather they just expand the active roster to 28 players and put a limit on the number of times a players can be sent up and down with it being injury related.

They did.

Not to a 28 man roster but to 26. And I don't think going to 28 would do much to lessen the need/temptation for tinkering anyway. We've gone from 9-10 man pitching staffs to 13-14 since I've been following but larger staffs have only led to more shuttling, not less. Also, instead of having players subject to promotion/demotion without limit for a set number of years they did set limits on the number of times within a season a few years ago. But those limits simply made the shuttle service involve more arms not fewer transactions.

I agree that so many transactions is often difficult to keep track of  --'Who's this guy again?' -- but I don't think it hurts those being transported back and forth. They're getting ML service time while they're up (possibly for the only time in their career which also gets them into the MLBPA pension plan) as well as a significant bump in pay for as long as it lasts. Plus you never know if/when their performance might lead to a longer stay either with their current team or because it piqued the interest of another.

[Edgy MD]

1 hour ago, The Hot Corner said:

As soon as he makes an appearance and pitches an inning, they will option him back to Syracuse and bring Gerber back.

More likely, it will be a third party — Tobias Myers or Daniel Duarte or Dylan Ross or the like.

They can come up with sophisticated rules, and teams will find sophisticated ways to skirt them.  The only thing that is going to stop this sort of practice is when one team decides there's a better way to win and everybody starts copying them.