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As the Mets' lineup continues to struggle, they address their issues in classic fashion — by futzing around with the bullpen. Oddly enough, they seem to be cornering the market on former Braves bullpen mainstays to add to their collection of Yankee relievers. Transactions, 4/6/2026 COMING Signed away from SEA to Minor-League Contract, Placed on Syracuse Development List Relief Pitchers Luke Jackson R/R DoB: 1991-08-24 High Level: MLB (2025) Luke Jackson was an indifferent piece of the Braves pen back in the teens, but then had an out-of-this world season in 2021. He paid for that by missing 2022 with UCL surgery and has bounced around the league since, with occasional success. That 2021 season helped the Braves to a championship, giving Jackson one more reason to be joyful following the birth of his son a few weeks earlier, leading Luke to celebrate following Game Three inviting his wife Corrine and baby onto the field for a post-game cuddle. Transactions, 4/9/2026 COMING Sent to St. Lucie on Rehab Assignment Relief Pitchers A.J. Minter L/L DoB: 1993-09-02 High Level: MLB (2025) Former Braves relief standby #2 is AJ Minter, who gave the 2025 Mets a few weeks of effective bullpenning before going down with a left lat strain that led to season-ending surgery. Mets Roster Central's mindset says that strains aren't supposed to lead to season-ending surgery, but we are not lat doctors. We are as happy to see the re-emergence of Minter, and while we are as dubious as experience might suggest with regards to how much he has left, we have to look at his rehab assignment as starting the DFA clock on Richard Lovelady, who knows a thing or two about DFAs. Transactions, 4/11/2026 GOING COMING Designated for Assignment Added to 40-Player Roster and Promoted from St. Lucie Relief Pitchers Relief Pitchers Richard Lovelady Craig Kimbrel L/L DoB: 1995-07-07 High Level: MLB (2026) R/R DoB: 32291 High Level: MLB (2025) Well, that DFA clock sure wound down quickly. And the Mets squeezed as much juice as the could out of Dickie by using him in mopup duty last night. The bell was tolling for poor Lovelady the whole time. It is hard to argue that Craig Kimbrel is distinctly ready to launch himself on the 2026 season, with only a single inning of A-Level competition since he came up short of the roster in Spring Training, but they don't call him "Dirty Craig" for nothing, and he hasn't made nine All-Star Teams for nothing. He's a weirdo at the end of his career, but he finds a way to get it done. Dirty Craig will be rocking his standard 46, which has been on his back for most of his 440 career saves. It isn't expected that he will take a lot of ninth-inning leads to protect away from Devin Williams, but he is currently fifth on the all-time save list, 38 behind Lee Smith and an active Kenley Jansen. Who knows if he will get a chance to make a further run piling up saves, but if doesn't come to blows with his father-in-law under the stands at Citi, a Hall-of-Fame future is all but guaranteed. Your Mets Coaching Staff Manager Bench Coach Pitching Coach Hitting Coordinator Third Base Coach First Base Coach Bullpen Coach Ass't Pitching Coach Carlos Mendoza Kai Correa Justin Willard Jeff Albert Tim Leiper Gilbert Gomez José Rosado Dan McKinney DoB: 1979-11-27 DoB: 1989-07-14 DoB: 1990-09-09 DoB: 1992-08-16 DoB: 1996-07-19 DoB: 1992-03-08 DoB: 1974-11-09 DoB: 1989-06-06 Hitting Coach Strategy Coach Catching Coach Coaching Assistant Bat'g Practice Pitcher Equipment Manager Bullpen Catchers Bullpen Catchers Troy Snitker Danny Barnes J.P. Arencibia Rafael Fernandez Kevin Mahoney Kevin Kierst Eric Langill Dave Racaniello DoB: 1988-12-05 DoB: 1989-10021 DoB: 1986-01-05 DoB: 1988-08-03 DoB: 1987-05-11 DoB: 1964-07-09 DoB: 1979-04-09 DoB: 1978-06-03 Your Mets Training Staff Director of Player Health Head Athletic Trainer Assistant Athletic Trainer Reconditioning Coordinator Reconditioning Therapist Head Performance Coach Assistant Performance Coach Performance Coordinator Brian Chicklo Joseph Golia Bryan Baca Sean Bardanett Josh Bickel Dustin Clarke Tanner Miracle Jeremy Chiang DoB: 1972-07-17 DoB: 1978-??-?? DoB: Circa 1980 DoB: 1988-06-23 DoB: 1996-??-?? DoB: 1987-??-?? DoB: 1991-??-?? DoB: ????-??-?? Your 2026 New York Mets Starting Pitchers Clay Holmes Nolan McLean Freddy Peralta David Peterson Kodai Senga R/R DoB: 1993-03-27 R/R DoB: 2001-07-24 R/R DoB: 2996-06-04 L/L DoB: 1995-09-03 L/R DoB: 1993-01-30 Relief Pitchers Huascar Brazobán Luis Garcia Craig Kimbrel Sean Manaea Tobias Myers Brooks Raley Luke Weaver R/R DoB: 1989-10-15 R/R DoB: 1987-01-30 R/R DoB: 32291 R/L DoB: 1992-02-01 R/R DoB: 1998-08-05 L/L DoB: 1988-06-29 R/R DoB: 1993-08-21 Relief Pitchers Catchers Infielders Devin Williams Francisco Alvarez Luís Torrens Bo Bichette Francisco Lindor Ronny Mauricio Jorge Polanco R/R DoB: 1994-09-21 R/R DoB: 2001-11-01 R/R DoB: 1996-05-02 R/R DoB: 1998-03-05 S/R DoB: 1993-11-14 S/R DoB: 2001-04-04 S/R DoB: 1999-11-13 Infielders Outfielders Marcus Semien Mark Vientos Brett Baty Carson Benge Luis Robert, Jr. Tyrone Taylor Jared Young R/R DoB: 1990-09-17 R/R DoB: 1993-12-11 L/R DoB: 1999-11-13 L/R DoB: 2003-01-20 R/R DoB: 1997-08-03 R/R DoB: 34356 L/R DoB: 1995-07-09 Also on 40-Player Roster Starting Pitchers Relief Pitchers Tylor Megill Christian Scott Jonah Tong Alex Carrillo Reed Garrett Joey Gerber Justin Hagenman R/R DoB: 1995-07-28 R/R DoB: 1999-06-15 R/R DoB: 2003-06-19 R/R DoB: 1997-06-06 R/R DoB: 1993-01-02 R/R DoB: 1997-05-03 R/R DoB: 1996-10-07 On 60-Day Injured List with torn right UCL. With Syracuse With Syracuse With Syracuse On 60-Day Injured List — right UCL surgery and nerve relocation surgery. With Syracuse On 60 Day Injured List with fractured rib. Relief Pitchers Catchers Outfielders A.J. Minter Dedniel Núñez Jonathan Pintaro Dylan Ross Austin Warren Hayden Senger MJ Melendez L/L DoB: 1993-09-02 R/R DoB: 1996-06-05 R/R DoB: 1997-11-07 R/R DoB: 2000-09-01 R/R DoB: 1996-02-05 R/R DoB: 1997-04-03 L/R DoB: 1993-11-29 With St. Lucie on Rehab Assignment On 60-Day Injured List — right UCL surgery. With Syracuse With Syracuse, on Seven-Day IL With Syracuse With Syracuse With Syracuse View full article

Stealing down six, you better make it. And a Lou Brock reference without a Lou Brock graphic is a sad deal.

Gotta hand it to Cortes, fouling off forkball after forkball. Senga had nothing after losing him. How he lasted another turn through the lineup is another matter.

Bad Day for Senga, sure, but Mendoza should have known he was toast at least two batters ago, probably more.

"My mother got thrown out of a roller derby match. She threw her shoe." — Ron Darling, as the A's bury Senga This game may be worth it just for that line.

Amazin' to see Vientos being the defender who is most on his toes and on his game. And Senga has one foot in the shower here.

Mets need a road trip. And a couple of guys need to taste some bench.

Benge walking up to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Motown is gonna end up owning a piece of Citi Field.

Lindor also not particularly playing clear headed there.

Marathon at-bat here by Cortes.

Polanco, by hitting behind the runner, was a key in getting that run home.

Also kinda scary to see Senga have to hammer over to first to cover.

Heartbreaking to see Benge's head in his ass. Probably not healthy for his head, either.

Folks, start some In-Game Threads. Don't leave it to the site managers to get it done.

wOw. Sadly, bullpenning ain't really where the leak is right now.

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Well, at least we got McNeil's bat going. That's a start.

The wafty armpit thing was more of 2024 move, I think. The gesture was different last year. They did a motor-hands followed by an up-yours kind of thing.

I could have gone my whole life not knowing there were two Max Muncys. I would have just gone from Athletics series to Dodger series for years and assumed he was being traded back and forth. Denzel Clarke comes from a family of serious jocks. Jamaican-Canadian jocks. The Naylor brothers (Bo, Josh, Myles) are second cousins, and his mother was an Olympic heptathlete, who once broke the Canadian long-jump record twice in one day.

Richard Lovelady, PotG!

That kind of language is going to make it tough to be the Mets' eye guy.

Wait, what's this about going KABOOM!!! on hoes?

OK, OK, the important thing is that got the lineup up there and got my scotch into me. The fact that I can't tell night from day is neither here nor there.

The T is kinda pandering to University of Texas fans too. I'm kinda down with the TEJAS chest plate, though, because bigot MAGA congressmen like Brandon Gill are openly declaring anything not in English to be un-American and subject to deportation. Although, you don't really need to spell it "TEJAS" to pronounce it TE-has, as far as I know, so it kind of feels forced.