After another Mets win on Sunday, the Mets took a big hit when Mets lefty reliever Jerry Blevins got hit by a line drive in his left forearm and the result was a fracture. He will be in the DL and out for 6-8 weeks.
“I saw the X-rays this morning at Hospital for Special Surgery and his fracture was a little more complicated. It wasn’t displaced, but looked more like a broken teacup, and that takes a little longer to heal. And, obviously, that’s his stress arm.”
Yet Mets GM Sandy Alderson is not too worried about it cause he’s comfortable with the Mets pitching depth, due to the development of several pitchers and also the presence of lefty Alex Torres who they also acquired right before the season along with Blevins.
“Blevins has been great for the first couple of weeks of the season, and we’ll expect he’ll be great when he comes back,” Alderson said, “In the meantime somebody else has to step up. Although we’ve lost Jerry, we still have far more depth than we had say mid-spring training, just because of the development of a couple of the guys and the fact that we also have Alex Torres.”
The Mets bullpen has an ERA of 3.38 so far this season. Opposing hitter are batting only .174 vs the Mets pen which is 3rd best in majors.
The Mets have called up Hansel Robles as a replacement. He has struck out 10 batters, while tossing 7 2/3 scoreless innings for Triple-A Las Vegas.
With Blevins out, the Mets have to rely even more on Alex Torres as well as their other lefty Sean Gilmartin. The Mets also have lefty Jack Leathersich in the minors, who they can also bring up if a lefty is needed.
The Mets have already lost Zack Wheeler and Josh Edgin to TJ surgery in spring training. They also lost closer Jenrry Mejia to a PED suspension. But the Mets have still been winning and overcoming these losses. Now they hope to overcome Blevin’s absence.
Alderson believes the team will be fine and will continue to overcome the adversity. He may be right. Keep in mind that Bobby Parnell is expected to be back before too long and one estimate put his return at a week.
