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Mets Activate Jeurys Familia From Restricted List

By Steve Adams | April 20, 2017 at 4:03pm CDT

The Mets announced on Thursday that closer Jeurys Familia has been activated from the restricted list after serving his 15-game suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy. The team also recalled catcher Kevin Plawecki from Triple-A Las Vegas and optioned right-hander Rafael Montero and left-hander Sean Gilmartin to Vegas.

Familia, 27, will rejoin a Mets bullpen that currently ranks in the middle of the pack, league-wide, in terms of earned run average. Of course, that includes some problematic innings from Montero (seven earned runs, 6 2/3 frames), who was optioned out today upon Familia’s activation. While manager Terry Collins has said Familia will be eased back into the closer’s role, Addison Reed figures to see a few more save opportunities before Familia fully reclaims his previous role.

Familia was arrested back in early November after allegedly assaulting his wife, but the charges were dropped at his wife’s request the following month. As we saw last year in the suspensions of Aroldis Chapman and Jose Reyes, however, a lack of criminal charges is not necessarily an impediment to a suspension under the league’s still fairly new policy. Beyond his 15-game suspension (and the lost salary that accompanies that punishment — about $730K, in Familia’s case), the right-hander agreed to make a donation and speak to several rookie players on the matter. Familia also underwent extensive counseling sessions this offseason.

From a purely on-field vantage point, the return of Familia will be a boon to the Mets’ relief corps. Over the past three seasons, the hard-throwing righty has amassed 233 innings with a 2.20 ERA, 243 strikeouts and 70 unintentional walks. He led the National League with 51 saves in 2016, saved 43 games the year before and has led the Senior Circuit in games finished in each of the past two seasons (a combined 132 games).

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9 Comments

  1. Dave4585

    8 years ago

    Thank god

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  2. bastros88

    8 years ago

    it’s about time Montero got optioned down, how he keeps avoiding being dfa is completely beyond me

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    • bobbyvwannabe

      8 years ago

      He is a complete disappointment. It really is too bad. I was hoping he could be our long man for the next few years with Lugo.

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  3. metseventually 2

    8 years ago

    Mets really need to add another arm out there. Hoping they can pull a trade for Nate Jones just after the ASB- he’d help push the bullpen to another level. Of course they’d have to make another Reed/Salas waiver trade in late August, so they can run that arm into ground in September.

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    • mikeyank55

      8 years ago

      They are going to run plenty of arms into the ground. It’s “TC’s M O”.

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      • metseventually 2

        8 years ago

        Totally.

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  4. greatdaysport

    8 years ago

    Yeah, let’s welcome the wife beater back!

    He must have followed Kobe Bryant’s example and bought his wife off with a huge diamond ring.

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  5. greatdaysport

    8 years ago

    Yeah, I thought so. Change your name to something that represents you more, like “Skipped School”.

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  6. ratchetpoobis

    8 years ago

    give him and reyes a lifetime ban and let jenrry mejia come back

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