The Mets placed southpaw Brooks Raley on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to April 28) due to left elbow inflammation. Left-hander David Peterson was also optioned to Triple-A, creating a second spot on New York’s active roster. Right-handers John Curtiss and Adam Ottavino will fill that void, with Curtis called up from Triple-A and Ottavino activated from the paternity list.
Raley entered today’s action tied for the league lead in appearances (14) and holds (eight), and for the most part, the lefty has been quite sharp despite a somewhat misleading 4.76 ERA. Twelve of Raley’s 14 outings have been scoreless, except he was tagged for four runs in an inning of work against the Brewers on April, and for two runs in his most recent appearance on Thursday against the Nationals. His 22.4% strikeout rate is also below average, but Raley’s 2.0% walk rate is among the league’s best, and he is doing a good job of limiting hard contact.
Ottavino has pitched well this season and will likely slide back into his set-up/part-time closer role, with David Robertson still getting the overall bulk of save opportunities. But, losing Raley is certainly a blow to the Mets bullpen, in part because he was also the team’s only left-handed reliever. The Mets haven’t been particularly concerned with bullpen balance in recent times (given that Joely Rodriguez was occasionally the only southpaw in the 2022 relief corps), and chose to just recall Curtiss rather than select a left-hander like T.J. McFarland onto the 40-man roster.
Since the Mets optioned Peterson to Triple-A multiple times in 2022, it isn’t necessarily a shock that the left-hander is again headed to Syracuse. With Justin Verlander set to be activated from the injured list next week and Max Scherzer returning from suspension, Peterson is the odd man out of the rotation mix after making six starts thus far in the 2023 season.
It has been a hard-luck year for Peterson, whose 3.59 ERA is well below his 7.34 ERA. Peterson has above-average strikeout and walk rates, but he has also allowed eight home runs in only 30 2/3 innings of work. (For comparison’s sake, Peterson surrendered 11 homers over 105 2/3 frames in 2022.) The southpaw has allowed a lot of hard contact, but even the softer contact has been finding holes, as per his inflated .357 BABIP. Peterson will get a chance to get himself on track at Triple-A, while remaining on tap as the Mets’ top depth starter.
The Mets are finding out, that the one thing in MLB that TRUMPS a HUGE bank account, is a STRONG farm system.
They had 6 in top 100 before the season started, true there isn’t a ton after those 6
They’re improved from past yrs and Baty is slowly taking over 3b, but they really need a couple decent pitcher prospects and more all around DEPTH at all levels on the farm.
….they knew about all that. That’s why their payroll is big and they didn’t trade any prospects. They made it known their goal is to be competitive while building up their Minor League systems
Considering Alvarez, Baty, Nimmo, Guillorme, Alonso & McNeil are all homegrown and up till his departure, deGrom as well, I’m sure the Mets know that a farm system is important.
Lol Mets,
Where is that poster that was saying how good David Peterson was?
lol…I was looking for ALL OF THEM too. I imagine they’ve pulled off a ‘typical Mets fan’ and bailed on this site in order to avoid being called out.
I am so confused by this sentence, “It has been a hard-luck year for Peterson, whose 3.59 ERA is well below his 7.34 ERA. “
I think they meant his FIP is 3.59.
Well, 3.59 IS below 7.34. Maybe he’s in some Bizarro World and there are two of him?
“It has been a hard-luck year for Peterson, whose 3.59 ERA is well below his 7.34 ERA.”
Huh…?
baseball-reference.com/players/p/peterda01.shtml?u…
David Peterson is 27 yo not a young prospect
30.2 IP 7.34 ERA 8 HRs 38 Hits 10 BBs 25 ERs Yowza
His career ERA is lower than his ERA this season. Which means he’s having a bad year (month).
Peterson not taking that step up. NYM big issue outside of the predictable older rotation health is DH. Just as if was last season at deadline. Malpractice that GM didn’t address this effectively
Mets6986?? come out wherever you are lol
lol
He might be pulling off a @CanoSucks and disappearing because he “has a life” when the Mets are looking bad, but can be around because his life sucks when the Mets are looking good.
Or, he may be pulling a straight up @MetsFan22 and just disappearing altogether after many many many many many failed statements.
The Braves are built the right way with young controlled talent power bats & up and coming SP signed to long term extensions on team friendly deals.
The Mets on the other hand have an Owner who spends like a drunken sailor overpaying for the over the hill injured players and who has a horribly managed FO and system that can’t develop or evaluate talent mostly with Wilpon holdovers. No comparison really
Still employing Wilpon holdover medical and training staff where their players keep dropping like flies as always.
He doesn’t spend like a drunken sailor at all. He gets good players at normal market rates to stay competitive while avoiding emptying his farm system by going the trade route.
Cohen is doing it right for the Mets organization. Once a good minor League foundation is built, the payroll will come down
Cohen is pursuing a foolhardy strategy accumulating overpaid aging veterans ( Lindor long term, Max & JV shorter term ) and doesn’t have the FO or developmental talent to build the system with prospects. I liked Gimenez and he provided more value at SS than Lindor. He has zero high upside SP talent in the system and the roster is clogged with too much deadwood which will be a future problem also. He should have retained Seth Lugo and Trevor Williams who would have been interim SP solutions better than what they did. FO is clueless.
He needed to rebuild and gut the FO instead he brought back the dinosaur Sandy Alderson and retained Wilpon holdovers which only prolongs the mismanagement. He began on the wrong foot unlike the Braves who will be dominant for a decade now.
Cohen is a successful hedge fund guy but not an activist investor type. He doesn’t understand that he acquired a failed enterprise Wilpon Mets and he should have cleared out the Organization instead of taking advice from their clueless management. Citifield needed to be cleared out lol.
I remember hearing of someone I know clearing out 10 Floors of a Building of one of his businesses in Manhattan giving up the lease when he learned how ineffective those managers were performance wise.
@Robrock
The challenge with fans that become owners is in whether you’re getting someone that will let his fandom interfere with his ownership decisions or if you’re getting someone that will step out of the decision making enough to hire competent people to run the franchise so they can sit back and enjoy in person as a fan. When Cohen bought the Mets, I made this same statement as to being the key for the Mets with his ownership. It’s looking like Cohen is the type of owner that is led by his fandom instead of getting the right hiring decisions to run the organization. I’ll give a comparison.
In Miami, we had the fan becoming an owner situation with Micky Arison of the Miami Heat. When he was having his ‘Hoorah!’ moment after prying majority ownership of the Heat from the previous majority owner, while that was celebratory, there was still the concern about him down here about whether he would be a fan that helps or hurts the franchise. He answered that question pretty fast when his big decision that came not too long after was when he tampered with Pat Riley and brought Riley in to run the franchise, while Arison would just be a rubber stamp on the finance-related items involved with Pat’s roster decisions, Arison has been the type of fan that stays out of the way, and just enjoys fandom from a point of view that is essentially a kid playing with his awesome toys, and sharing them with his friends and strangers in a ‘look at my cool toys’ type of way….which all of us in South Florida love him for. Arison even has on multiple occasions said that there isn’t much profit for him in ownership. For him, it’s “an expensive hobby that he gets to brag about to his (wealthy) friends” – often alluding to be able to show off his championship rings and trophies, and all of his parties are filled with all of the “Heat Culture” guys like Alonzo Mourning, D-Wade, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem, Glen Rice, Tim Hardaway, etc. etc. When you get an owner who is a fan of his team, this is what you want him to be like.
With Cohen, he came in with what amounts to a ‘Mets Homer’ perspective. He came in with the form of fandom in which he believes the PR narratives, the beat writer narratives, the NY-based national media narratives, and a high level of blind homerism that comes from years of drinking the Wilpons Mets Kool-Aid, and many other flaws. He came in with the mental concept that big splashes in the offseason to grab headlines equates to guaranteed championship success on the field…a tradition that has been extremely strong in the Mets franchise from the time of Steve Phillips’ time as GM all the way to this very day. The result has been many years of laughable results at the end of the season, epic failures…all of which are put in the spotlight by that PR machine that assures that they get all the coverage and hype to be on the stage for everyone in the nation to see it on display. And further, the PR machine of the Mets beat writers, NY media and NY-based national media have operated to the point of serving like a bunch of “Yes Men”…with the homers in the fan base adding on in the ‘Yes Men’ atmosphere. All of this is what you don’t want with a fan that becomes the owner. And the results show it with the Mets having the longest championship drought for NL East teams (who they have outspent by a large margin since this version of the NL East was put together), and one of the 9 longest championship droughts in all of MLB…longer than many other teams they have outspent by a long margin throughout the drought.
If somehow someone can get Cohen to step back, just hire someone competent to run the team, the Mets can get an ownership by a fan that helps them. But until then, the Mets essentially are getting the type of ownership by a fan that no team wants because it stings a lot worse when blind homerism and historical bad habits of fans makes the decisions instead of actual intelligence.
Nuck Nuck Nuck Nuck….I thought Mets were going to win it all? How’s 4th place sound to You? We all knew it. The whole league laughs. Every year Mets fans Yap Yap Yap and before you know it they are out of contention. No one is going to touch Braves this year. Best rotation in the game. The Real Max has a .45 ERA. You can have the 39 year old cheater. Funny thing is how loser Mets fans were crying about Musgrove when it was just sweat. Meanwhile you guys are legit cheating. Good on you Mate!!!!
SMH, calling scherzer a cheater due to excessive rosin n sweat is silly. In 20 Years he’s never been caught cheating and spin rates stayed the same after sticky stuff got cut down. Not defending the Mets they stink, defending scherzer who is a legend in the game and fans that want to call him a cheater due to some umps decision is just silly to me. But totally agree the mets suck and the braves are amazing!! Best run franchise imo
Luchessi should be in Single-A, hes awful. Don’t listen to clueless Met fans that love their players no matter what or the misleading stats. Hes going to get blown up, its only a matter of time, hes no answer to our problems
As a Braves fan who watched that game, Peterson was toe to toe with Max until the final inning. It’s true Peterson has had his ups & downs, if I were a Mets fan I wouldn’t give up on him just yet. Maybe he needs to be a reliever?
He probably does need to be a reliever. He’s pretty ineffective this year, second time through the lineup. But since there are so many injuries in the rotation, I’m sure they’re gonna give him regular starts at AAA so he can be ready to come back up as a starter when another starter gets hurt.
Peterson is experiencing what every player in the history of MLB experiences – the league figuring you out and making the adjustments. He’s going to have to adjust back. Those adjustments are the difference between a guy that can have a good career or a bad one.
That’s pretty much the bulk of the situation with him.
My God, it’s a month into the season! Tear it all down! The Mets are terrible and old and have no DH and…… We still have a long way to go before the season is over.
Get a grip, keyboard warriors. Stop being so dramatic and enjoy the rest of the season.
I get a kick out of it too. To me though, you have to admit, it’s always fun to watch the same fans that squawked all offseason have meltdowns only one month into the season.
With this said, what’s the over/under that Mets fans start calling for Buck’s head by June 1st?
Buck isn’t the issue. 80% of the rotation has missed nearly a month of the season. Middle relief has shouldered the load and is burning out quickly.
In contrast to recent years, I think The Mets are experiencing the storm before the calm.
Braves beat his ass back to the minors.
No, it wasn’t the Braves, it was Peterson being scared and having a breakdown every time there’s two strikes. Every time the 5th inning hits. Afraid to throw the fastball
This was all obvious just taking one look at him on draft day
It was obvious on draft day that Peterson was a losing pitcher
The Mets have no idea what talent is or what they’re doing. Kevin Parada? What a joke
I’m sorry…. is an Oriole fan criticizing the Mets farm system? Seriously, I’d name all of the Orioles draft failures if I could remember any of the names.
You have a nice catcher. Congratulations. The end.
The day they drafted Peterson I was like oh no that’s going to be a disaster. Or Baty, or Cecchini or Parada, or Harvey, or Dominic Smith or Justin Dunn or Pete Crow-Armstrong
They simply have no idea what talent is
Huh?
Ummmmm…I’m pretty sure that there has never been any person in the history of mankind that is able to predict the outcomes of players drafted in MLB…or really any of the major sports…even one like the NBA where it’s a lot easier to guess what you’re getting in a draft pick.
The draft, especially the MLB Draft, is a roll of the dice – with maybe the only helpers in getting it right, is having the right developmental people who can take a draft pick and mold him into maximizing his talent…and maybe performing above his natural tools. Other than that, you really don’t know what you’re going to get or who’s going to pan out…even if they look good all the way through the Minors. When guys get to MLB, it’s a different monster…filled with many other talented players who are the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best in the world…many of which have secured themselves into the league by being able to perform year in and year out at some level of enough success to stay there – whether they are a bench or bullpen guy or an everyday player, All Star or Superstar.
Officially the first time I’ve ever agreed with you.
Any Verlander newsletters?
Maybe his next gig when he starts hanging with Bobby Bonilla?