The Mets have placed left-hander David Peterson on the 10-day injured list with shoulder fatigue, Tim Healey of Newsday tweets. In other moves, they recalled righties Drew Smith and Corey Oswalt and optioned RHP Franklyn Kilome.
Peterson exited his most recent start last Thursday with shoulder discomfort, though he was supposed to take the ball tonight before this news came down. The Mets will presumably start Oswalt instead, and if their career numbers to this point are any indication, the drop-off will be significant.
While Peterson is only in first season, he has been one of the few bright spots out of the Mets’ rotation in 2020. Peterson has been one of the game’s best rookies so far, in fact, having logged a 2.91 ERA/4.00 FIP with 7.06 K/9 and 3.32 BB/9 in 21 2/3 innings. Meanwhile, over 75 1/3 lifetime frames, Oswalt has limped to a 6.69 ERA/6.75 FIP.
The hope is that Peterson will return in short order, but shoulder injuries are ominous and time’s already running out on this season. Furthermore, the Mets have gotten out to a weak 10-14 start thanks in no small part to what has become a questionable rotation behind Jacob deGrom and Peterson. It looked promising a few months back, but Noah Syndergaard has since undergone Tommy John surgery and Marcus Stroman decided to opt out. Meanwhile, offseason signings Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha haven’t prevented runs at acceptable clips, nor has holdover Steven Matz. The Mets did just add reliever Robert Gsellman to their starting staff, but he only threw 1 2/3 innings in a start against the Marlins on Monday.
Why can’t we have nice things? Also, Oswalt is terrible.
It all started in a land far far far away…..with a guy named Bobby Bonilla
it started much more far away then Bonilla bro.
Last world series the Mets won was in 86, had winning seasons the next 4 years, signed Bonilla in 92 after a losing season in 91, and had 0 winning seasons with him.
The curse of bobby bonilla is real my friend. Mets won’t win a world series until after his contract is up.
The Mets will still be paying Bonilla four years after Mel Hall’s parole hearing.
Am I being “that guy” if I point out that they had a winning season with Bonilla in ’99? (which is also the contract he’s still being paid under)
1999 he played 60 games and batted. 160/.277/.303 the worst year of his career.
I’d argue they had a winning season in spite of him that year.
He was destroying them from within!
and this is why the Mets wolnt succeed. everyone on that team gets injured. its some sort of curse.
You don’t have nice things but you have a great thing in DeGrom
Nah he sucks according to your fan base. We need to throw in Alonso and Nimmo to balance out the almighty Andujar
gleyber torres was the one that Yankees fans didnt want to deal for degrom not andujar there’s a big difference there
They actually did okay (relatively speaking) with injuries last season, so I guess they were due.
The Mets had a lot of starting pitching depth. I thought signing Wacha and Porcello was excessive. Now, I can’t imagine where they would be if they didn’t make those moves. Mets can’t catch a break. Last year was really their year health wise.
The Money the Mets signed with Wacha, Porcello,and Bentances they should of brought back Wheeler. Quality is better than quantity.
I do think they were foolish to not look at Wheeler, who I feel is better than Syndergaard, but even so, they need arms and lots of them.
Porcello and Wacha don’t represent quality depth. Organizational depth is a weakness of the Mets.
Quality SP depth: Buehler, Kershaw, May, Urias, Gonsolin, Stripling, with Ferguson and Gray on the periphery. Price opts out; Nelson and Wood get hurt. No problem. That’s real depth: 11 guys, six righties, five lefties. No whining about injuries or guys being unavailable.
Yea, but I mean the Dodgers are a juggernaut. The Mets don’t have that luxury.
Dodgers are a great team but still haven’t won a WS in over 30 years.
A WS title would be nice, but It’s not why I follow my team. I’ll take contending every year over doing what the Kansas City Royals did.
The Mets are a major market franchise. They need to run their organization better. I watch them most nights prior to the Dodgers game. It is painful.
Meh, Wheeler was very inconsistent. When he was on a roll though he was unhittable
They could’ve had a certain not cheated. Not everyone uses cameras and steroids to win championships but that’s what AL Teams do
Wheeler is a HUGE injury risk and was hurt most of his six years with the Mets. I’ll take Quantity.
Injury risk? Sure, but I mean Syndergaard and Stro are too.
Wheeler is basically an older and more expensive Syndergaard (save for the flukey ERA and HR rate for Syndergaard last season, they’ve basically been the same pitcher the last two seasons). Would the Mets be in better shape right now if they had Wheeler? Sure, but I still think it’s defensible that they passed on him, and the decision looks worse than it is because of circumstances that they couldn’t control.
I think Wheeler has more upside. The guy has had some of the best 2nd half numbers of any pitcher the last few years. Even better than deGrom’s in some cases. Now I’m not saying he’ll ever be better than deGrom, because he won’t, but he has ace potential. Syndergaard on the other hand seems to be trending slightly in the other direction, BUT you’re right about him being younger. 3 years. Not much, but enough. And you’re absolutely correct about your larger point; we can’t judge the move based on this year and the Syndergaard injury. Time will tell. I guess my thinking is, it’s not foolish that the Mets didn’t sign Wheeler, it’s foolish that they never even made an offer. The Stroman move last year sort of told me that the Mets were content without Wheeler, and I think they’ll regret that a bit down the road. This year is a wash though.
I watched this two pitchers. Syndergaard is so much nastier. It’s not even close when it come to that. All his pitches move more and are faster. Syndergaard has better upside
Syndergaard has the peripherals and the dirty-looking stuff but has never had results to match. I agree he has the higher potential ceiling but think Wheeler is more likely to reach his. Thor may forever lead the league in “stuff”, but his results may never reach such lofty heights.
How is signing two post-peak guys coming off dismal years in Porcello and Wacha “a circumstance that they couldn’t control”?
How was trading for Stroman in a season they had no remotely realistic chance of making the postseason a circumstance they couldn’t control.?
How was dealing major chips in Kelenic and Dunn for a position player and a reliever when the back of their rotation was giving them below average ERAs in nearly half the team’s starts in 2018 and 2019, a circumstance they couldn’t control?
The Mets dug this bed for themselves, completely.
The Mets handled the situation poorly,, that is something I definitely won’t defend them on. I don’t think there’s a scenario where they’d actually have offered him close to what Philly did (Brodie and his big mouth made that clear) but they still should have at least made a decent offer.
While the PR would have obviously been terrible, part of me wonders if they should have traded him last July and at least gotten some return for him. It would have possibly softened the blow of giving up potentially useful pieces for Stroman.
They should have traded Wheeler and not have done the Stroman trade. Heck, in hindsight, they probably should’ve traded Thor.
Corey Oswalt’s coming back? LOOK OUT FOR FLYING BASEBALLS, DOWNTOWN FLUSHING!
I’m still 70% sure that Corey Oswalt, Walker Lockett, and Chris Flexen are the same person even though one of the bunch is apparently in Korea.
I’ve also heard additional rumors of a Cody Oswald and Walter Locket around here somewhere.