Daniel Duarte Comes Up In Latest Mets Bullpen Move

Well, they didn't call Gerber up.  He was on the roster already when he got hurt.  They just activated him.

But ... yeah, now they've sent him down.  It is true that all teams do it, but no that doesn't make it right.

I think it was the success of the Dodgers championship of 2020 — and possibly them going back to 2017 — that got teams really addicted to the idea of sustaining a 10-deep bullpen by constantly rotating a cast of guys through to fill the last two spots.

I think it's crazy.

Another thought is they could have gotten a look at the stuff Gerber showed up with and concluded he wasn't what they were hoping he'd be.

Duarte has given up one run in his last six appearances, covering 10 innings.  He's a multiple-inning guy in that sense, and I imagine they were hoping to exploit that, after burning Sean Manaea for the next several days.