Sunday’s 6-2 loss, one in which R.A. Dickey kept the Mets in the game until the bullpen came in, inspired me to bring back an oldie but goodie from 2008 (which you see above). We’re experiencing the same thing here in 2011, with much less at stake. The real question is: What did we really expect? Go ahead and look at the money being paid to the relievers. Consider the two highest paid guys left in that bullpen are the two biggest busts, Igarashi and Carrasco, and they’re being paid a total of just under $3 million for this season. The rest are making next to nothing, and the big money closer was in the other bullpen today. You get what you pay for. And when the guys you’re paying for are retreads and injury risks, maybe they paid too much. When you don’t pay for quality, or grow your own arms in the system, this past weekend is what you get. And this is what has left Terry Collins grasping at straws and dreaming about a AA reliever who was almost an emergency nurse. If Josh Stinson indeed gets called up, he may get that opportunity anyway with all the bleeding he’ll have to stop.
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