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Mets Place Jeurys Familia On Injured List, Select Ryan O’Rourke

By Steve Adams | May 1, 2019 at 3:22pm CDT

The Mets are placing right-hander Jeurys Familia on the 10-day injured list due to a shoulder injury, the team announced to reporters today (Twitter links via Anthony Rieber of Newsday and Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News). Familia has already received an injection in his ailing shoulder. In his place on the active roster, the Mets will select the contract of left-handed reliever Ryan O’Rourke. New York has an open 40-man spot, so an additional corresponding move will not be necessary.

Per MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo (Twitter link), Familia alerted the Mets to the discomfort in his shoulder this morning. He subsequently underwent an MRI that revealed a Bennett lesion/bone spur.

There’s no clear timetable on his return to the club at present, though the ailment helps to explain the rough start to the season for the 29-year-old. In 14 1/3 innings, Familia has been tagged for 11 runs (10 earned) on 16 hits and a sky-high 13 walks against 15 strikeouts. His current 95.5 mph average fastball is a career-low and down 0.7 mph from last season, and the extreme difficulty throwing strikes is out of character for the righty as well; over the past half decade prior to 2019, Familia had averaged 3.4 walks per nine innings pitched.

Familia signed the second-largest contract of any reliever this offseason at three years and a total of $30MM, but he’s clearly not off to the start he’d envisioned. With him on the shelf for a yet-undetermined period of time, it stands to reason that Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman will be tasked with serving as the primary right-handed setup men to closer Edwin Diaz. Gsellman leads Mets relievers with 18 2/3 innings pitched, though the Mets’ rigid use of their relievers could shoehorn him into a more limited eighth-inning role.

The 31-year-old O’Rourke will be returning to the Majors for the first time since the 2016 season. The southpaw saw 47 innings worth of action with the Twins in 2015-16, but Tommy John surgery wiped out his 2017 season and much of his 2018 campaign. O’Rourke spent last year in the Orioles organization but was only able to toss 14 1/3 innings of rehab work in the minors by season’s end. He landed with the Mets on a minor league deal early in the offseason.

So far in Syracuse, O’Rourke has pitched to a 4.61 ERA with a 14-to-6 K/BB ratio in 13 2/3 innings of work. Lefties are just 3-for-16 with a pair of walks and nine strikeouts in 18 plate appearances against him (.188/.278/.188), and that type of performance against same-handed opponents is rather characteristic of the 6’3″, 230-pound O’Rourke. In his two seasons with Minnesota, he dominated left-handed batters, limiting them to an embarrassing .134/.244/.239 slash in 80 plate appearances. Right-handed hitters, however, fared much better against O’Rourke, hitting him at a .250/.350/.390 clip.

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  1. david klein

    3 years ago

    That explains his terrible performance and I don’t know why they aren’t calling up a righty

    Reply
    • nymetsking

      3 years ago

      righty, lefty, doesn’t matter much if he’s not finding the plate.

      Reply
  2. DarkSide830

    3 years ago

    O’Rourke was a savvy offseason get but i dont think he’s ready for MLB action again yet.

    Reply
    • a dawg

      3 years ago

      He did ok

      Reply
  3. gofish

    3 years ago

    How convenient.

    Reply
  4. jbigz12

    3 years ago

    I doubt the .7 off his still 95.5 mph fastball is the cause of his troubles. The lack of location is hurting a lot but I have a hard time believing that slight decrease off an above average fastball is doing him in.

    Reply
    • johnrealtime

      3 years ago

      I may be wrong but I believe that the writer is pointing out some factors that may be indicative of a larger problem with Jeurys, either mechanical or from an injury that he has been fighting throughout the year. I’d tend to agree

      Reply
    • rjtfd

      3 years ago

      I doubt the .7 is the cause. He has not been any good under any kind of pressure for a long time now. When was last time he had a clean lights out inning? Never…Always gets in a jamb and sometimes he gets out of it and sometimes he doesn’t. 2015 World Series he proved that. Callaway should’ve pulled him at first sign of implosion. No need to load the bases first. Terrible to commit to him for 3 year deal. 1 was worth taking a chance not 3. Maybe him and Darnaud can have a catch together.

      Reply
  5. Bocephus

    3 years ago

    The important thing here is what did mikeyank55 have to do with this.

    Reply
    • mikeyank55

      3 years ago

      Hey Bo-glad that you are recruiting more fans for me.

      Now the most important thing here is to disavow your previous support of the Mets . Don’t forget to remind people that by supporting the Mets fans must pledge to NOT buy any more tickets for games at Chitifield, AND NOT watch SNY.

      Remember that once you have converted three fans you will be given access to the Yankees or Phillies AAA team for 2019.

      Reply
  6. baseball10

    3 years ago

    What a terrible signing this was at the time and even more so now

    Reply
  7. alien

    3 years ago

    how on earth did he pass the offseason physical??

    Reply
  8. Reflect

    3 years ago

    I’m so glad he waited until a month in to tell people about this

    Reply
  9. angieboy1984

    3 years ago

    O Rourke over Santiago?

    Reply
  10. Boogaloo

    3 years ago

    He is done, another great signing.

    The bullpen has a closer who can only pitch the 9th inning and cant pitch in tie games and now a set up man, lugo, who cant pitch 2 days in a row.

    Get ready for some long games

    Reply
  11. carlos15

    3 years ago

    Familia isn’t hurt he just sucks

    Reply
  12. BartoloHRball

    3 years ago

    I still don’t understand how O’Rourke was chosen over Bashlor….who has shown more stuff and frankly probably should have made the opening day roster. It seems like someone really is down on him because he tracks better than Peterson, O’Rourke, and a few other arms that have been rotated through that last bullpen spot.

    Reply
  13. txman22

    3 years ago

    Why is Chris Flexen in the majors, let alone on the Mets. He’s a loss waiting to happen.

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