The New York Mets announced today that they have recalled RHP Tyler Pill and RHP Erik Goeddel from Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League, placed RHP Zack Wheeler on the 10-Day Disabled List, retroactive to June 20, with biceps tendinitis and optioned infielder Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas.

Pill will wear #56 and Goeddel will wear #62. Pill will start tonight and Goeddel will be available out of the bullpen.

Pill, 27, is 0-2 with a 3.75 ERA (five earned runs/12.0 innings) in four games, two starts this year for New York. He was 5-1 with a 1.71 ERA (12 earned runs/63.1 innings) in 10 combined starts with Las Vegas and Binghamton (AA) of the Eastern League this season. He began the year without permitting an earned run in his first 34.1 innings.

Goeddel, 28, was 2-4 with a 6.67 ERA (22 earned runs/29.2 innings) in 25 games for Las Vegas this year. He has allowed four earned runs in his last 11.0 innings (3.27 ERA). Goeddel was 2-2 with a 4.54 ERA (18 earned runs/35.2 innings) in 36 games with New York in 2016.

Wow, can this season get any worse for the Mets at this point? It’s like the hits keep on coming and any hope that at some point the Mets’ fortunes get turned around keep fading away.

Until just recently, Wheeler was enjoying a pretty solid season until things just fell apart.  In his last two starts, he lasted just 1 2/3 innings against the  Cubs, allowing eight runs, and then 2 innings against the Dodgers allowing seven earned runs..

“It’s really frustrating. These last two outings weren’t very fun,” Wheeler said afterward. “I haven’t  [had] my off-speed all year and now it’s starting to catch up with me. Guys get reports and it’s starting to catch up to me.”

In what should come as no surprise, on Monday the Mets went out of their way to say that Wheeler was fine physically and that his struggles were purely performance related, citing mechanical and command issues.

For a pitcher who had not appeared in a major league game in two years, the Mets were riding Wheeler with no real hesitation about his workload this season. And the innings limits that were talked about a lot in spring training was not such a hot topic as the season wore on. Could this be fatigue related?

For the season, Wheeler is 3-5 with a 5.29 ERA in 13 starts with a 1.534 WHIP. There’s no timetable for his return.