Benjamin Grimm

Let's see Conforto break this thing open...

Gotta cash in a few more here.

And Walker singles in Cabrera to break the tie.

I was hospitalized for a few days back in 2004. I remember, each time that the doctor came to talk to me, I would think that I was glad that I didn't have a baseball General Manager explaining what was going on.

Probably just through Thursday. I think we'll see Montero on the roster in time for Friday's start.

So only slightly worse than they do against everyone else.

That doesn't sound like particularly good news.

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Kristie Ackert, Daily News wrote: Steven Matz, who has a mysterious elbow issue, and Seth Lugo, who is trying to avoid Tommy John surgery with a throwing program and therapy, are just beginning to pitch off the slope of the mound Sunday. Alderson had said that he had backed off looking on the free agent market for pitching because those two could be back by the end of May. An industry source said there is very little starting pitching available via trade or free agency right now. The source said the Mets did go and watch Doug Fister pitch last month, but reports are his fastball is sitting in the high 80’s right now. Rafael Montero is expected to be called up Monday. He is really the Mets only viable option at Triple-A, and he’s not been that viable at the major league level. The right-hander, who was once ranked as a higher prospect than Syndergaard, has a 4.68 ERA and 1.559 WHIP in 12 career major-league starts.

I can't really fault them for not having more than seven starting pitchers. They came into spring training with unprecedented depth. It's just terribly unfortunate that they had to burn through it so quickly.

I think we read that Fister didn't want to be stashed in Vegas, but I'm not sure if that's true. If there's a better pitcher than Gilmartin or Montero in Vegas then I think you find a way to get him on the 40-man roster.

I'd use Reynolds. Put Cabrera in to replace him in the infield.

This is looking like the kind of game where a position player throws an inning or two.

Mets are chipping away.

It's true that they can't strap him down and force him to get an MRI, but they could have said, "We can't let you pitch if we don't know what this is, so it's MRI or DL."

Leaves the mound after wincing in pain. Sheesh.

Rene Rivera homers, so I'll stick around a little longer.

I'll watch the Mets bat in the second to see if they get any runs back. If they don't score I'm going to bail, at least for a while.

Gilmartin up in the bullpen.

Two outs in the first and Syndergaard has allowed five runs.

Maybe he should have gotten the MRI.

Hansel Robles is 4-0 this season! He's on a pace to go 28-0! I know that wins and losses aren't the most meaningful of stats, and that's especially true of relief pitchers. But it's interesting as a statistical quirk to see a reliever leading the team in wins. The only time that's happened over a full season in Mets history is in 1983, when Jesse Orosco won 13 games. I know how steep the odds are against it, but wouldn't it be great to see him win 20 games this year? What a fun oddity that would be!

Terry did two things in this series so far that defied standard orthodoxy, and I approved of both of them, and they both worked out. On Friday night, he pulled Jeurys Familia in favor of Josh Edgin. I first noticed this trend during the days of Billy Wagner, but it may go back further than that. Once a closer is in a game where there's a save opportunity, you keep him in the game, no matter how much trouble he's in, no matter how poorly he's pitching, until the lead is blown. As long as there's the slightest chance that your guy can get a save, you leave him in the game. Because getting a save for your closer is, of course, more important than getting a win for your team. And on Saturday, he gave Zack Wheeler the hook with two out in the fourth with a lead, depriving him of the chance to get the win. Again, Terry rightly put the team ahead of a statistical reward for an individual player. I don't know why it takes losing nine of ten, or ten of eleven (whatever it was) for Terry to realize that getting a win is important, but I hope the lesson sticks with him.

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