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Over the past week, it was pretty clear that the Mets' starting rotation remains a strength. Even when the starters weren't their most-dominant selves, they managed to pitch fairly well. The bullpen, however, looks like as much of a question mark as it has at any point this season.
| Player | Last Week | This Week | Comment |
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| Jerry Blevins, LHP |  |
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If the Mets make it deep into the postseason, Blevins thinks there’s a chance he could return then. |
| Tyler Clippard, RHP |  |
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The veteran righty threw four scoreless innings. |
| Bartolo Colon, RHP |  |
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For the most part, it’s been either Good Bartolo or Bad Bartolo this year, and Good Bartolo showed up in his lone start of the week. He has a 2.49 ERA in three starts in August. |
| Jacob deGrom, RHP | |
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deGrom struggle a bit with walks in his start this week, but the strikeouts—and the overall results—were fine. |
| Jeurys Familia, RHP | |
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In four innings of work, Familia looked as dominant as he has all season. |
| Sean Gilmartin, LHP | |
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He only pitched two innings, but Gilmartin allowed a couple of runs in the process. |
| Erik Goeddel, RHP | |
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Still working his way back from elbow soreness, Goeddel’s rehab assignment has been bumped up from St. Lucie to Binghamton. |
| Matt Harvey, RHP | |
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He hasn’t been striking out many opposing hitters lately, but Harvey threw 14 innings over two starts with a 0.64 ERA. That works. |
| Steven Matz, LHP | |
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Matz made his first rehab start over the weekend, and it went reasonably well. He’ll continue to ramp up the pitch count and could be back in a couple weeks. |
| Jon Niese, LHP | |
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Niese had a 3.46 ERA over two starts, which isn’t spectacular, but it’s better than league average by enough to warrant the green arrow again this week. |
| Eric O’Flaherty, LHP | |
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The lefty has not looked great since the Mets acquired him, and he had a 4.50 ERA in two innings. |
| Bobby Parnell, RHP | |
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He only threw 1.2 innings, but Parnell did not strike anyone out, gave up six runs—four of which were earned, giving him a 21.60 ERA—on five hits with three walks and zero strikeouts. |
| Hansel Robles, RHP | |
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Robles threw four scoreless innings, three of them in the same appearance on Saturday as the Mets went to extras with the Pirates. At the very least, he should be above Bobby Parnell in the bullpen pecking order at this point. |
| Noah Syndergaard, RHP | |
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Syndergaard gave up three runs in seven innings with five strikeouts and two walks. It was not his best start, but it wasn’t terrible, either. |
| Carlos Torres, RHP | |
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Torres had been very good over the last month or so, but he had a 5.40 ERA and struggled with walks in 3.1 innings this week. Let’s hope that’s just a blip in an otherwise strong second half. |