For many of the season, MLB groups are prohibited from carrying greater than 13 pitchers on their energetic roster. So it is fairly a feat when one group manages to make use of three-and-a-half instances that quantity in a 12 months.
That group could be the New York Mets, who used their forty sixth pitcher in 2025 on Wednesday to interrupt a record held by final 12 months’s Miami Marlins. The record-setting pitcher was Dom Hamel, who made his MLB debut with a scoreless sixth inning in opposition to the San Diego Padres in a 7-4 defeat.
The Atlanta Braves are proper behind them with 44 pitchers used, adopted by the Los Angeles Angels (41) and Arizona Diamondbacks (40). The group with the fewest pitchers used this season: the St. Louis Cardinals, with 24 per Baseball Reference.
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Using essentially the most pitchers in MLB historical past is not a very good factor. In the Mets’ case, the “feat” displays a season through which practically their complete pitching plan has blown up of their face, leaving president of baseball operations David Stearns scrambling for innings wherever he can discover them.
It has been a case the place the pitching employees rots from the highest of the rotation. After an 89-win season and an NLCS berth final 12 months, the Mets made some curious gambles like signing former New York Yankees nearer Clay Holmes and making him a starter, plus reclamation prospects like Frankie Montas and Griffin Canning.
Very few of these plans have labored out. Holmes has truly been effective, all issues thought of, however the one different Mets pitcher to submit greater than 120 innings has been David Peterson, who has posted a 6.99 ERA because the begin of August. Those struggles continued Wednesday earlier than Hamel entered the sport, with six earned runs in 5 innings.
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Kodai Senga simply accepted a demotion to Triple-A. Canning ruptured an Achilles tendon in June. Sean Manaea, who signed a three-year, $75 million deal last offseason, has a 5.40 ERA and simply moved to the bullpen. Montas additionally obtained moved to the bullpen and is now out for the season with a UCL harm. Tylor Megill has been out since June with an elbow sprain.
The Mets’ bullpen truly hasn’t been that unhealthy by comparability, rating seventeenth in MLB with a 4.08 ERA and seventh with 585 innings pitched. With so little going proper, the Mets have lately relied on a a trio of rookies in Nolan McLean, Brandon Sproat and Jonah Tong within the rotation, with blended outcomes. None of them had appeared in an MLB recreation earlier than August.
Dom Hamel simply turned the reply to a really exhausting trivia query. (Photo by Ishika Samant/Getty Images)
(Ishika Samant by way of Getty Images)
All of that has left the Mets sitting within the third and remaining wild-card spot as of Wednesday, with the Diamondbacks and Cincinnati Reds fewer than two video games behind them. This is a group that had the very best record in MLB in June, and the NL East lead as lately as Aug. 2.
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That leaves Stearns with lots on his to-do record, each for this season and the long run.
Every pitcher the Mets have used this season
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David Peterson (167 1/3 innings pitched)
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Huascar Brazobán (56 1/3)
* denotes a place participant pitcher