Mets' good vibes will end if David Stearns can't fix bullpen

All of the positive vibes launched by aThe targets were Jake Diekman and Reed Garrett because, well, they could not hit their targets. Each walked the first two batters they faced. Three of the free passes scored. They threw so many balls that at one point the umpires embarrassingly lost semblance of the count, thinking that there were three balls on pinch-hitter Trey Cabbage when he actually already had walked.

Mendoza was operating with a thin staff. He is playing one man down without the suspended Edwin Diaz. Even in victory Friday, Jose Quintana provided just four innings, leaving four relievers to cover five innings. So Mendoza stuck with Tylor Megill through a three-run fourth, but Megill bulged his pitch count by walking three of the final seven hitters he faced for a Mets staff that has walked the highest percentage of hitters in the majors.

The Mets know they are down Brooks Raley and Drew Smith for the season, and have no clue what they have mentally or physically in Diaz, who can return from his ban for sticky stuff on July 6. Would the Mets like more starting pitching? Sure. Who wouldn’t? But the market is going to be thin and to give up significant prospects you would have to believe the addition would be part of a postseason rotation, and the Mets are uncertain that this thin market will offer a no-doubt upgrade on Senga, Scott, Sean Manaea and Luis Severino.

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