Right-hander Sean Reid-Foley is on his way to join the Mets from Triple-A Syracuse, as first reported by Mike Mayer of Metsmerized. He’s not on the 40-man roster, so New York will need to open a spot on the 40-man roster to formally select his contract.
The 27-year-old Reid-Foley is 15 months removed from last year’s Tommy John surgery and has pitched 22 innings of 4.09 ERA ball across three minor league levels as he’s worked back into game shape. That includes a less palatable 4.96 ERA in 16 1/3 Triple-A frames, though the former top prospect has a 3.95 ERA and 42.5% strikeout rate over his past 14 Triple-A appearances (23 strikeouts, 54 batters faced).
Reid-Foley has pitched in parts of five big league seasons, all of them coming with either the Blue Jays or the Mets. In 102 1/3 innings at the MLB level, the former second-round pick (2017) has posted a 4.66 ERA with a solid 23.6% strikeout rate but a bloated 13.7% walk rate. He’s split his time relatively evenly between the bullpen and the rotation, carrying very similar marks in ERA, strikeout rate, walk rate, ground-ball rate and home run rate, regardless of role. Like most pitchers, he’s thrown harder out of the bullpen; last year’s career-high 96 mph average on his fastball in relief was 2.4 mph north of the 93.6 mph he averaged in 2017-18 when working primarily as a starter.
The Mets’ bullpen has been a revolving door since the trade deadline. While veterans Adam Ottavino, Brooks Raley, Drew Smith and Trevor Gott have been constants, but they’ve used a stunning 17 relievers since the trade deadline. The Mets have cycled through journeymen such as Jimmy Yacabonis, Dennis Santana, Tyson Miller, Vinny Nittoli and Adam Kolarek (among others) while trying to patch things together on a thinned out pitching staff. Reid-Foley will become the latest entrant into that relief corps carousel. He’s out of minor league options, so he’ll have to either stick in the bullpen or else quickly be designated for assignment to make way for the next arm.
The Mets haven’t had a starter complete five innings since Kodai Senga tossed seven frames on Saturday. Their bullpen has covered 11 2/3 innings in the past three games alone, so it’s not exactly a surprise to see them bringing in a fresh arm.
Regardless of what Mets GM has said, there’s no way they aren’t bringing in FA SP next year. And probably more than 1.
Of course they are going to try and sign stars.
They just had to lie to Max Scherzer to get him to drop his no trade clause.
It will be business as usual once the year ends.
A 4.93 FIP and 5.6 BB/9 but hey he strikes out a lot of guys and thats all that matters.
Just bring back Colon already…
I’d say we’re due for a look.
A Colonoscopy, so to speak.
One of the worst pitchers I’ve ever seen. Where do they find these guys. They have only developed 2 solid relievers in the past decade, Familia and Lugo. Sewald and Robles don’t count as they were terrible on the Mets. They need to get some new development people in the minors. Every other team produces good relievers except for the Mets
He’s not worse than Reed Garrett. Compared to Garrett, SRF is Hoffman or Rivera. Hoping he’s the roster casualty to make room for Reid-Foley.
Everyone is the worst to you. There’s no “he’s not good.” Just the worst.
For what it’s worth, this guys pure stuff is a league ahead of Garrett. Just hope he can figure out where it’s going.
Wonder how many of the wacky “LOLMETS” crowd are NYY fans? Glass houses bruh
@10centBeerNight the Mets deserve it, the organization is run by morons from top to bottom
I’m laughing at both new york teams, they have both been run poorly for years now
What exactly have the Jays done lately?
This Mets team is the worst that I have ever seen and I have been watching them since Tommy Davis in 1967.
I hate this team lol Mets.
Ed Kranepool who is one of the all time Greatest Mets and 1st that I met has it 100% right. Todd Frazier is also right.
nypost.com/2023/08/17/ed-kranepool-rips-mets-2023-…
youtu.be/hQrFElNvVjk
Buck and Hefner have done a terrible job managing the bullpen! They overused them beginning in April,and it’s been relief bum of the week(or now daily it seems) ever since. And why the hell is Vogelslug still on the Mets! A train wreck of a season.
@brooklyn62 As I was saying before the season started, this bullpen was not built for a contender. They penciled in Drew Smith as their 7th inning guy meanwhile hes one of the worst relievers in the game. Falls on the FO. I don’t blame Buck for the bullpen troubles, he had nothing to work with. Can’t rely in Ottavino and Robertson every night, its not sustainable
Coming into the season, Ottovino and Robertson setting up for Diaz would have been fine. Raley is much better than Joely was. But after Diaz went down it was questionable, but still getting done.
The fact that Nimmo, McNeil, Lindor and Alonso were all hitting below .270,leaving guys on base, going all or nothing with their swings, getting away from the fundamentals of hitting like going with the pitch instead of trying to pull every pitch sunk the season. NOT the bullpen. The fact that Scherzer was anything but a stopper, even when staked to a 3 run lead, sunk the season. Not the bullpen.
Yes Buck was left to mix and match what he had but the Batting Stars on the Mets couldn’t put any rallies together through June derailed the Mets team more than anything else. Never helped that Nido took his .125 BA to Syracuse too late. Sucked that the team got little to nothing from Marte and Canha for half a year, and by the deadline they WERE out of the wild card race regardless of how many games were left.
They forgot how to hit. How to rally. McNeil remembered last.night against the Braves when he stuck his bat out there and singled in the ninth just as he and others had done last year TO THE FRUSTRATION of their opponents and the other team’s pitchers.
Instead, Stay Puft Marshmallow
man had his bat on his shoulder for more than half a season, and his glove on ice all year. He should have followed Ruf and the Mets could have placed Ronnie Mauricio there and had at least a late inning fielder in the bench too.
Or maybe Gary Sanchez, as a 3rd catcher//DH.
Sad, but season was lost long ago before the spotlight was on the bullpen.
Agree 100%! McNeil was ice cold until this month,Baty looked overmatched at the plate,Alonso after he was plunked on the wrist did his best Dave Kingman impersonation, and Lindor(as well as most Mets hitters) has done ZILCH in the clutch with RISP. Every Mets game I’ve watched this year with bases loaded or RISP, my wife conveniently takes our daughters to the store so they don’t hear me yell and curse that the Mets can’t score yet again!
@brooklyn62 finally someone else realizes Lindor is one of the least clutch players in the game. 2 outs with nobody on base he gets a single. 99% if hes up with men on base he strikesout. So overpaid and its not even funny. You got these morons who bring up WAR as a end all stat. Its not a good stat at evaluating players. It overates defense way too much and doesn’t take into account clutchness. Some people may point out Lindors RISP numbers are average. He gets hits with men on base in blowouts which increase his average with RISP. Its getting ridiculous
Truth,brother!
Amen!
LFG at least you didn’t say he is THE least clutch.
Think that early 90s Vince Coleman team that lost over 100 games is set in stone as worst ever. Who was the bro that lost like 25 straight decisions? Anthony Young. Can’t see anything topping that high bar of sucking
I had full season tickets early 90s since 86 team. They were very bad but 2023 based on false expectations which I never subscribed to feels worse IMO. Early 90s the memory of 86 & 88 were still fresh.
The Mets teams of the late 70s/ early 80s were so awful! The Midnight Massacre in 77 when Seaver was traded took the soul out of the Mets, and the didn’t recover until they hired Davey Johnson.
Don’t forget Phil Bickford! He had an impressive save a couple weeks ago.
Good for him. Make an impression for next season.