As per Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, the Mets are taking precaution with reliever AJ Ramos and have decided to send him back to New York to have his right shoulder checked out. The 31-year-old right-hander was reportedly complaining of shoulder tightness after yesterday’s game.
Ramos has a career 3.07 ERA in 374 total appearances with a 1.27 WHIP, and 10.5 strikeouts and 4.9 walks per nine innings.
This season, he hasn’t had as much success. In a team-and-league-leading 28 appearances this year, Ramos has a 6.41 ERA, a 1.627 WHIP, and is walking 6.9 batters per nine innings.
Ramos didn’t allow an earned run until his tenth appearance of 2018 (April 16). Since then he’s pitched to a 9.45 earned-run average with 14 walks in 13.1 innings.
After walking in the winning run on Friday night and then getting bombed for three earned runs in two-thirds of an inning yesterday, Ramos had this to say to DiComo about his mindset.
“Nobody’s going to feel sorry for me but me. That doesn’t matter,” said Ramos. “So what I have to do is get out there and throw a scoreless inning and build off of that…”
Apparently, that opportunity will have to wait a bit longer than Ramos had hoped.
