Edwin Diaz and his woes struck again on Friday night, allowing a two-run homer to J.T. Realmuto that tied the game for the Phillies at 4-4, despite the fact that Diaz was able to strike out three batters in the inning.

Luckily for the Mets, they managed to get a walk-off walk from Pete Alonso to win the game 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth inning, which actually gave Diaz the win (just to show you how meaningless the win statistic is, especially for relievers).

With Justin Wilson having pitched the eighth inning and Seth Lugo pitching three innings in the team’s prior two games, despite getting Thursday off, Mickey Callaway turned to Diaz and intimated a desire to do that again after the game.

“Diaz has to be good for us to get to where we want to go,” Callaway said. “We’ll continue to run him out there in those situations when Lugo is not available or Wilson is not available, and if he doesn’t get the job done, we won’t get the job done.”

Mickey Callaway has had a lot of soundbites that angered Mets fans this season, but this one has got to be towards the top. As Matt Ehalt of Yahoo Sports pointed out, this is simply unfair to the rest of the team to keep doing that.

Allowing Diaz to go out there and close or pitch in big spots with a 5.88 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, seven losses, and seven blown saves is simply asking for trouble.

The Mets also don’t have the luxury of experimentation with a four-game deficit for the NL Wild Card spot right now. This isn’t like the team has already clinched a playoff spot or is out of contention.

This team is legitimately hoping to make the playoffs and, in fact, the biggest reason the team could miss it, is because of the team’s reluctance to demote him in their bullpen.

In a sense, I get what Callaway is saying because he probably is right that the team needs him to become the 2018 version of Edwin Diaz to make the playoffs. That doesn’t mean you throw him into the fire with any sort of regularity like he did on Friday.

All was well after the game because the Mets still won, but more often than not if the team chooses to use Diaz in those spots, they will get burned as they did during Wednesday night’s debacle against the Washington Nationals.

On top of it, those situations put Diaz in a position to fail right now. They basically are just grasping for hope when they put him out there, with nobody in the dugout comfortable. When he fails, he gets booed and on Friday night, some death threats even emerged on Twitter.

Please don’t be one of the people giving him those. He’s a struggling baseball player, not someone deserving of excessive booing and death threats.

Seth Lugo and Justin Wilson, in my opinion, have established themselves as the two best relievers in the bullpen with Luis Avilan being a nice piece as well. Those are the guys to turn to right now, not Edwin Diaz.