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By Brian Joura

It’s beat a dead horse time!

The Mets’ plan coming into the year was to have five “lock” relievers and then use the final three spots as revolving doors, hoping that among their score of relievers with options that a handful of them would prove worthwhile. Then Edwin Diaz got hurt, meaning the club had four revolving doors instead of three. And not one option reliever with at least 10 IP has been any good. Here are the ugly numbers:

Name	IP	ERA	G	GF	SV	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BF	WHIP
Dominic Leone	30.2	4.40	31	6	0	27	15	15	7	11	2	33	1	127	1.239
Jeff Brigham	29.2	5.16	32	7	0	18	18	17	6	13	0	33	5	124	1.045
Stephen Nogosek	25.2	5.61	13	1	0	28	16	16	6	14	0	25	2	118	1.636
Grant Hartwig	24.2	4.74	19	3	0	23	16	13	1	12	1	19	2	109	1.419
Tommy Hunter	23.2	6.85	14	6	0	28	20	18	6	5	0	20	2	106	1.394
John Curtiss	19.2	4.58	15	4	0	17	10	10	3	8	0	16	0	81	1.271
Trevor Gott	16.1	5.51	20	5	1	20	11	10	1	6	0	17	1	76	1.592
Jimmy Yacabonis	13.2	6.59	7	2	0	14	10	10	2	6	0	11	1	62	1.463
Phil Bickford	11.1	8.74	11	4	1	13	11	11	3	6	0	15	1	54	1.677
Dennis Santana	10.2	5.91	9	4	0	10	7	7	2	7	0	12	1	50	1.594
Josh Walker	10	8.10	14	2	0	12	11	9	2	6	0	12	0	48	1.8
Totals	216	5.67						136

And Reed Garrett and his 9.31 ERA doesn’t make the list, as he has only 9.2 IP. Even without Garrett, that’s 11 pitchers who are all below average, with eight of the 11 more than a full run worse than the MLB 4.18 average for relievers this season.

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