{"id":11701,"date":"2025-07-21T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:33:08","slug":"mets-need-help-for-overworked-bullpen-at-mlb-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11701\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets need help for overworked bullpen at MLB trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You knew things weren\u2019t going easily or especially well for the Mets when they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/19\/sports\/ronny-mauricio-elicits-boos-from-mets-fans-following-costly-error\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were booed during Saturday\u2019s game<\/a>, following the feel-good ceremony to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/19\/sports\/david-wright-lands-his-place-in-mets-immortality-as-his-no-5-gets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retire uniform No. 5 for all-time mensch David Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The warm and fuzzy glow over their fantastic start to the season following their glorious October appears to have worn out faster than their overworked bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to the Mets\u2019 No. 1 issue with 10 days to go before the trade deadline. Yep, it\u2019s that very pen, the group that rarely hears from us unless things start to go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The well-used bullpen did hold on to salvage the finale <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/sports\/juan-sotos-gutsy-baserunning-pays-off-as-mets-sneak-by-reds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-2 over the surprising Reds<\/a> before a sellout crowd at Citi Field on Sunday after blowing a lead in the eighth inning. But Mets relievers are obviously tuckered out from unavoidable overuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You knew things weren\u2019t going easily or especially well for the Mets when they were booed during Saturday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,11214,462,11215,475,82,2091,2089],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}