Daniel Zamora has been an up-and-down pitcher for the Mets over the last couple of seasons, coming up when they needed a temporary arm just to be shipped back to Triple-A later on.

However, the southpaw is making a case early in spring training to possibly be trusted as more than a lefty-specialist in 2020.

In three appearances thus far, Zamora has four strikeouts among the nine batters he’s faced, with all four of his strikeouts coming against right-handers. The only baserunner he allowed was a single to the left-handed-hitting, Jazz Chisholm.

On Friday, Zamora had his best outing of the spring, facing three consecutive right-handers in which he saw Paul Goldschmidt, Yadier Molina, and Tyler O’Neill.  Zamora got Goldschmidt to ground out while he struck out both Molina and O’Neill.

If Zamora has actually found a way to handle right-handed hitters, the southpaw might actually have a role this season.

The three-batter minimum could mark the end of the true lefty-specialist in baseball as, basically, pitchers need to be capable of getting hitters on both sides out now unless if they are coming into the game with two outs in an inning already, which would allow them to face one batter.

In 2019, right-handed opponents had a .898 OPS against him, although left-handed hitters didn’t have much trouble with Zamora either as they had a .821 OPS against him.

Overall (17 appearances), Zamora had a 5.19 ERA, 4.94 FIP, and 1.731 WHIP with 8.3 K/9 as compared to 5.2 BB/9.

Zamora, 26, has an uphill climb for making the team out of spring training, though, as the Mets’ bullpen appears to be pretty full at the moment if everyone stays healthy.

Edwin Diaz, Seth Lugo, Jeurys Familia, Dellin Betances, Justin Wilson, and Brad Brach are virtual locks to make the team while Robert Gsellman is likely to stay in the bullpen as well, although the team has options on him still.

One of Michael Wacha or Steven Matz appears destined to take the eighth bullpen spot as of now.

It remains to be seen if this short sample size of spring training success against right-handed hitters will mean anything for Zamora in 2020, but it would be coming at the right time if it does.