Mets Add Justin Hampson From Buffalo To Depleted Bullpen

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• Alex68 June 25, 2012 at 8:44 am

  MY GOODNESS.. Well, the good thing is it can’t get any worst for sandy alderson’s good day bullpen assembly.. 17 losses already… amazing…
• Emily Carl June 25, 2012 at 8:50 am

  This move has been long overdue and hopefully permanent!! Congrats Justin!!!
  • Alex68 June 25, 2012 at 9:19 am

    umm? what?? the man hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2008? is that what you mean by long overdue???
• Emily Carl June 25, 2012 at 9:33 am

  I meant that because he’s been a solid reliever for the Bisons for awhile now and deserved to be called up. Should’ve happened last September!
  • Amazin June 25, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Another AAAA player provided by the GM who is living in the 80′s. Poor Terry Collins. Expected to turn coal into diamonds with every move the out of date GM makes for him.
    • Petey Pete June 25, 2012 at 9:52 am

      How do you know so much about Justin Hampson? Seen him pitch a lot have you? What were your actual impressions of his “stuff”? I’d love to hear your analysis.
    • oleosmirf June 25, 2012 at 11:13 am

      those Yankee AAAA relievers sure held the Mets in check…
      • Petey Pete June 25, 2012 at 11:17 am

        Hahaha! Yeah but it’s the Yankee power hitters that give me a real pain in the neck.
      • Metsie June 25, 2012 at 11:36 am

        AAAA Pitchers i what you ideally want to fill in that Bullpen if you are still short on starting pitching and need your best in the rotation…

        Yankees Pen has the second lowest ERA in the MLB…
        Our Pen is still the worst ERA in the league!
• srt June 25, 2012 at 9:40 am

  Finally another LOOGY who hopefully will stick. I never, ever want to see TC having to ‘wrestle’ with a decision of leaving Batista out there for 2 innings in that type of situation.
  Actually, Batista is a low leverage, mop up type of reliever and should never been out there for 2 to begin with. You would think Friday night would have clued him in.

  We might have solved the 2nd lefty with this move, but for at least the next 2 weeks we’ve got no established closer. This should be fun.

  Figured Rottino was the expendable piece when another BP arm was called up.

  We
• gary s. June 25, 2012 at 9:58 am

  Way overdue for a second lefty.I guess as soon as he gets shelled a few times, he can be replaced by Edgin.
• Metsie June 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

  This move is just about a day too late now isn’t it?

  I wonder how much affect Collins’ pause when asked about having a second lefty available influenced the decision on making this move?
  • oleosmirf June 25, 2012 at 10:38 am

    about 6 weeks late actually…
  • Alex68 June 25, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Metsie, it does not take a genius to see that if you got a lefty in your bullpen, and 3 out of the next 4 hitters coming up are either lefty or switch hitter you bring the lefty in… It was a bad move and i was just thinking “how is he not bringing the lefty in?
    but either way, we lost, they won, move on..
    • Metsie June 25, 2012 at 10:58 am

      Well it’s a mistake because we lost….If we win it’s not a mistake is it?

      We can second guess the decision and both sides of it can make valid points for thier side…

      But a Manager has to make decisions based on the Roster he has been given. And lets face the facts here going to anyone in that Bullpen is a losing proposition! Even Byrdak…

      When all you have is one lefty specialist you do tend to want to hold him back for a matchup that is a bit more important than the 7th…Hell for all we know he was saving Byrdak to be the closer that night with Francisco out.

      Do you think Girardl’s decision on who to bring in to pitch was as difficult as Terry’s?
      I don’t because he knows he has a pen who gets the job done and he can call on just about anyone in that pen and have a decent shot at getting the hold…

      Not the case for terry. So we can nitpick on who he brings in or fails to bring in until the cows come home, but it was Sandy who left him short with a myriad of crap to choose from and it took him until today (right after Terry paused to choose his words so as not to hang his boss on a question about available lefties) that the FO actually did something about it.

      And still what we did is not going to help the 7th and 8th innings.

      As I say everytime that Pen is the topic of discussion….
      Sandy’s Good Day is Terry’s BIG Nightmare!

      Like a bad dream no matter what he tries to do it’s like he is running in mud and can’t get away from the monster…

      It’s not really his fault because how can you make a GOOD decision when there is no good decision to make?

      Terry made a decent case for Bautista…The game was tied and god knows how long the game would go like that.

      If Bautista doesn’t give up the run you want Byrdack to face those big bats in extra innings.

      But no matter what Terry decides the deck is stacked against him because the FO gave him crap to work with!
      • srt June 25, 2012 at 12:08 pm

        Hard to argue with any of these points especially after what we’ve seen from the BP so far this season.
        • Metsie June 25, 2012 at 12:35 pm

          Give the greatest chef on the planet 6 piles of turds to cook with and despite all his culinary skill your still going to be eating a turd pie!
    • Alex68 June 25, 2012 at 11:16 am

      Damn metsie… Write an article .. LOL
      • Metsie June 25, 2012 at 12:34 pm

        To much work and not timely enough posting to warrnt it…But I had considered it…

        Bottomline is we should not make Terry the scapegoat for Sandy’s lack of good acquisitions.
      • Alex68 June 25, 2012 at 2:37 pm

        Metsie, you know the drill, Sandy cannot be blame for the mets situation… Last year was omar’s fault.. this year is TC’s fault… Next year the players… Never him, never him..
        • Metsie June 25, 2012 at 2:59 pm

          And I just don’t get what the allure of him is…

          We have known about this Bullpen for a month and a half now and not a peep other than us about fixing it.

          Glaciers move quicker than this front office and if they think they are going to find the solutions at the deadline they have another thing coming…

          Cause the Yankees went looking for Bullpen help two months ago and found nothing which is why they have a squad of AAAA Pitchers there and they are the 2nd best ERA in the leage!

          I almost wonder if the reason we haven’t tried the kids WE have is because they are more worried about keeping Buffalo happy and an affiliate than they are with winning an MLB baseball game!

          Ramirez should have been left down at AAA until he pitched well. Bring up one of those other kids and give them a shot.
• Joey D. June 25, 2012 at 10:59 am

  I don’t mind giving Hampson another chance, but I do question why he was released after putting up some good numbers in for two seasons in San Diego and then toiled in the minors since and for more than one organization. Also, after a good 2007, why was he sent down to the minors and not called up again until June the following year.

  Did he have arm trouble in 2009 – this might explain why he pitched so little in the minors.
  • oleosmirf June 25, 2012 at 11:12 am

    shoulder surgery I believe
  • Petey Pete June 25, 2012 at 11:12 am

    If you read my article about him from last week, you’ll see that he missed two seasons with shoulder problems. Here it is:

    http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/06/its-time-to-give-justin-hampson-a-shot-in-the-mets-bullpen.html
    • Joey D. June 25, 2012 at 12:23 pm

      Hi Petey,

      Guess because you opened the article asking….

      “what would you say if I told you there was a guy who could step in and step up, and do a fantastic job for the Mets right now? What if I told you he wouldn’t cost anything, not in salary or in players or compensation, but would merely have to be added to the 40-man ML roster?”

      …. I must have said to myself “I’ve heard that one before from the front office”.
• Even Flow June 25, 2012 at 11:29 am

  Justin, if you’re reading this, congrats on your promotion! It’s been a long, hard road back to the majors and we hope you will continue your success to Queens. Now if only Beato could’ve joined you, we really could turn around this questionable pen. Guess he still needed time. Again, congrats Justin!
• Russell Zanca June 25, 2012 at 11:39 am

  Yeah, it can’t get worse…I guess.

  Let’s hope the guy has success.
• jerseymet June 25, 2012 at 4:52 pm

  Petey thanks for all the updates on Hampson. Glad to see a AAAA type who is hot. Justin has earned another chace to make it in the bigs by pitching well. Sandy’s and Omar’s free agents have on the whole not worked out. Come on Buffalo do it again!
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• bagripit June 26, 2012 at 3:29 pm

  Good Luck Justin from your friends at home…we know you will do good