Adam Ottavino lambasted the Mets’ dealing with of their pitchers final season, questioning supervisor Carlos Mendoza’s use of reduction pitchers and organizational protocols, all whereas suggesting that the Amazin’s weren’t frightened sufficient about preserving their pitchers’ arms.
After rattling off names of Mets pitchers that had been injured final season, Ottavino, internet hosting an episode of his “Baseball & Espresso” podcast on Wednesday, implored the crew to be “higher than this.”
“That is embarrassing, that is truly pathetic, like pathetic. I might’ve by no means let this occur if I used to be on the crew final 12 months,” he mentioned. “At the very least half of those guys wouldn’t have blown out. I might have protected these dudes myself; I might have needed to soar in entrance of them myself.
“Sadly, there was no one prepared to face up and speak to Carlos (Mendoza) this 12 months; it was simply me, I suppose. So slightly little bit of a difficulty there.”
Ottavino spent three seasons with the Mets from 2022-24, together with one below Mendoza. The ex-big leaguer did acknowledge Mendoza was “under-the-stress supervisor,” however mentioned issues should change.
“And in the event that they proceed down this path, they’re gonna be f–k-e-d, since you can’t injure this many dudes yearly,” Ottavino mentioned. “Hopefully, this isn’t an precise technique as a result of it’s freakin’ pathetic and it’s not player-friendly, and ultimately individuals will catch on.
“And it’s humorous as a result of they had been bragging about preserving individuals wholesome the 12 months earlier than, when it had nothing to do with them. So yeah, I’m slightly aggravated. As a result of these are guys that must be enjoying, so it pisses me off.”
Ottavino continued to elucidate that a part of the problem, in his opinion, stemmed from an absence of “participant training” on methods to maintain wholesome and “stress on loads of guys to play even once they really feel slightly compromise.”
“| suppose he has no thought what he’s doing relating to bullpen guys and methods to maintain them wholesome and even methods to care about them in any respect. There’s no communication there, there’s no really feel there, there’s no bedside method when guys get damage,” the previous Mets and Yankees pitcher mentioned.
The Mets noticed accidents to Tylor Megill, Dedniel Nunez, Danny Younger, Frankie Montas and Reed Garrett, simply to call just a few, and so they used an MLB-record 46 totally different pitchers through the 2025 season.
Ottavino pitched simply 1 2/3 innings in three appearances for the Yankees this previous 12 months.
