The Mets have designated right-hander Gonzalez Germen for assignment in order to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for outfielder John Mayberry Jr., tweets Adam Rubin of ESPN New York.
Germen, who turned 27 in September, has made a combined 54 appearances out of the Mets’ bullpen over the past two seasons, pitching to a 4.31 ERA with 8.9 K/9, 4.2 BB/9 and a 36.8 percent ground-ball rate. He’s averaged 92.9 mph on his fastball in that time while notching a swinging-strike rate of 14.2 percent, but Germen was also exceptionally homer prone and had enough command problems that the Mets deemed him expendable.
