Nathan Lavender

Top 10 bullpen in the sport all throughout the year.

Nate Lavender was impressive.

Duarte was pretty solid.

They had a number of guys come up and perform well.

Gabe Davis, Tobias Myers, and Jeffrey Yan with his celebrations are the other middle relievers.

Nate Lavender and Daniel Duarte are the setup men, both of whom were surprisingly very good this year.

And then Daniel Nunez will be the closer come 2029.

But again, the back half of this rotation is pretty fluid.

Could you see them signing an Alec Baum to play first base and be kind of on a pillow, component, prove-yourself contract? Could you see them going after a Ty France? He's probably going to get a good contract.

Could you see them finding some other Jared Young-type trash or treasures? Could you see them going with the component-driven bullpen and guys like Duarte and Daniel Nunez and who knows, maybe Senga and Devin Williams and Nate Lavender and what else? Ryan Lambert's lighting up the Arizona Fall League.

Whatever other young arms they have in the organization, can't you see them going that way in the bullpen? Working with some of the middle infielders that they brought over in the trade as maybe pieces that could bolster the offense.

I don't see an offseason.

Yeah, I mean, he was relatively effective.

Nate Lavender.

Nate Lavender was called up on August 4th, 21 games, 21 and 2 3rd innings.

He pitched to a 1-6-6 ERA.

He was great.

Like, honestly, I know that we mentioned the splits with Nunez and how much better he got as it went on.

Lavender was consistent from the moment they gave him an opportunity to the end.

I think that's an A performance by Nate Lavender.

Would be definitely open to bringing any of those guys back.

But I think the locks from the end of the year bullpen – daniel duarte and nate lavender for sure you know the mets really don't have any lefty options besides lavender and cno perez um so i think lavender is locked in i mean era under two he could be a late inning guy he was a late inning guy um Just so impressive and excited about his potential.

Daniel Duarte is a guy that I did not expect to pitch the way he did.

212 ERA was another one the Mets used in high leverage.

You know, maybe he's someone you store in, in Syracuse to, to, to, to call up when you, when you need them.

You know, I mentioned Perez, um, you know another one that that looks looked good at times could be a another lefty option that you just store in Syracuse you know the Mets showed last season how much bullpen depth you really need and that's an that's an every year year thing and I'll give David Stearns credit he did a good job of of you know stocking these guys in Syracuse you know you know Jonathan Pintaro um Had his moments, another one I would like to see back in AAA.

So a lot of these guys will be fighting for jobs next year, but I would lock Nate Lavender and Daniel Duarte in.

But it's just going to be interesting to see where the team goes moving forward.

So if Willard and the Mets pitching lab at large gets all the blame for Freddy Peralta, that's fine.

But then they also need to get all the credit for Christian Scott, and Nolan McLain, and Zach Thornton, and Nate Lavender, and Daniel Duarte, and the return of Daniel Nunez.

Like, they, they need to get credit for Luke Weaver having the best season of his life.

Like, so to me, Willard would've been an unfair scapegoat.

It's not always the case.

And I don't like to play this game where it's like you run out of luck, but I'm like, the Mets got really lucky when it comes to Carson Benge, A.J. Ewing, Nolan McLain.

Like, that doesn't happen that of- Nate Lavender.

Like, that doesn't happen that often.

That's almost double.

Same thing with guys like Nate Lavender.

We love Nate Lavender.

He made 21 appearances.

I can't give that over Brazabon.

So it's odd, though, that our choices are guys that aren't here.

But if we're there, like...

Those guys contributed a lot more than Nate Lavender.

And when you start to look at the Rule 5, Mathis, Barrow, Cota, Ziegler, and Girton are all guys that the Mets have to make a decision, 'cause they could lose them in the Rule 5 draft.

Uh, like they lost Nate Lavender, and fortunately got him back because of an injury.

They got...

It was basically fortuitous.