Too Much Bullpen

Don't get me wrong. I am excited about the recent run and the way they are playing. Even before this home stand, when things were looking bleak, I was liking the make up of this team better than I have for a while. I saw more hustle, more fundamentals, and just a better overall personality. The replacement of Brian Schneider- the WORST and most USELESS everyday player in baseball- by Blanco and Barajas alone was enough of a change. And I do think Jerry Manual has actually done a decent job so far; he has not only made some good moves, but kept this team from falling apart amid the early turmoil.

With that said, I still can not comprehend why Jerry feels the need to use as many relievers as possible during the course of a game. Last night was the perfect time to let Mejia get a couple of innings in. Was there any reason to have Valdes pitch the ninth? Aside from it further begging the question as to what he hell Mejia is doing up here, in what has been a limited role, these reliever's innings pile up.

The Mets have been an organization of excuses for the past five years and for the entire 2007 and 2008 off season those excuses were centered around the bullpen's exhaustion by season's end. If Jerry keeps rolling relievers out there when its not necessary, those all too familiar excuses are bound to resurface at some point this season. This is especially true when clowns like Maine and Perez can't get through 5 innings without throwing an absurd amounts of pitches.