Forecasts for Fifteen: Sean Gilmartin

[Edgy MD]

It's use-him-or-lose-him, so he's almost certain to get a chance, but will he be Jim Mann, or will he be... some other pitcher-dude who was better than Jim Mann that the Mets have presumably scored with in the Rule V draft? (Ugh, nobody's coming to mind.)



Sean Gilmartin? What will that guy do?

[Centerfield]

I don't know who Sean Gilmartin is. But I just want to say that I have an overwhelming urge to answer all of these Forecast threads with:

"My prediction? Pain!"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: It's use-him-or-lose-him, so he's almost certain to get a chance, but will he be Jim Mann, or will he be... some other pitcher-dude who was better than Jim Mann that the Mets have presumably scored with in the Rule V draft? (Ugh, nobody's coming to mind.)

Darren O'Day (until, y'know). Or Pedro Beato.

I think he lasts a few middling weeks, until Parnell is ready to raise hirsute hell, and in a few years Edgy forgets he was a Rule V pick.

8 G, 7 1/3 IP, 0 W/1 L, 4.91 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 1 HR, 6 K/3 BB

[Edgy MD]

O'Day was the best I could come up with, but thought him disqualified, because the win wasn't on the Mets' ledger.

Forgot about Beato.

I don't think it's Cleveland Parnell III breathing down this guy's neck. I think it's Rocket Leathersich.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Outside of Gilmartin, the likely bullpen out of ST looks like this (in rough order of roster surety):

MEJIA
FAMILIA
GEE
TORRES
EDGIN
BLACK

That leaves one slot, unless they decide to go with an eight-man-bullpen in the season's first month; that one slot is likely earmarked for Cleveland III, unless there's a setback/beard-trimmer accident, right?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gee, I wonder who'll they'll bounce.

[Edgy MD]

Parnell's opening the season on the DL, and pitching being what it is, somebody else may well be also.

So while there may indeed be a roster pinch as April turns toward May, there's a strong possibility that it'll take care of itself.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think he'll stick around until about the middle of May, perhaps longer if he pitches well enough.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I have no idea what to expect from this guy. Supposedly looked at as a lefty specialist but been a starter forever. And not one of those guys like Rice who hung around long enough to get an opportunity to be a role player, but a former first-round draft pick from a big-time college program who at least once was considered on of the real comers in the Braves system.

I am wondering whether his selection wasn't actually about insurance against the injury we all think Niese has been hiding with the lefty specialist role a value-added bonus.

Uh I got no idea.

25 games (3 starts); 34 innings, 1-2, 3.34. Most of the season in Vegas.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: It's use-him-or-lose-him, so he's almost certain to get a chance, but will he be Jim Mann, or will he be... some other pitcher-dude who was better than Jim Mann that the Mets have presumably scored with in the Rule V draft? (Ugh, nobody's coming to mind.) Sean Gilmartin? What will that guy do?

Your ability to recall all these past fringe Mets, especially ones that aren't from your earliest years of rooting is mighty impressive.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

According to all the scouting reports I've seen and Collins' comments, he's, like, a paint-the-outside-corner/changeup-heavy dude. I don't know that his stuff-- sight unseen-- would translate as readily to Byrdak-type as it would Bohanon-type.

[Edgy MD]

Your typical lefty specialists tend to be slider in/slider away-types. Always around the strike zone but never quite in it. If they lose a guy, it's a walk, but not a KABOOM. Occasionally the slider sets up the 88-MPH fastball up and in, but even that won't be in the strike zone.

A changeup-reliant lefthanded reliever isn't exactly what I want to throw up against Freddie Freeman and Adam LaRoche.

[Edgy MD]

Terry is looking at early May for Parnell's return. So until then, the field looks like:

>>>>>>>>>MEJIA<<<<<<<<<
>>>EDGIN<<<>>>>FAMILIA<<<
>>GILMARTIN<>>> BLACK<<<<
>>>>>>>>TORRES<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>GEE<<<<<<<<<

[smg58]

Gilmartin get the spot and does well enough. 70 G, 54 IP, 3.30 ERA, 1.25 WHIP.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Will stick around all 2015 doing this and doing that well enough.

[Edgy MD]

Stirrups.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wouldn't be shocked if he moves to the Blue Jays, as he is a tremendous hoser.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Aw, take off.