Adam Ottavino understands the Mets’ bullpen would be weaker if their best reliever this season is traded, but experience has taught him there could be a silver lining.
Adam Ottavino understands the Mets’ bullpen would be weaker if their best reliever this season is traded before Tuesday’s deadline, but experience has taught him there could be a silver lining.“You just would have to deal with it,” Ottavino said before Tuesday’s Subway Series game in The Bronx. “We didn’t expect not to have Edwin [Diaz] and we don’t have Edwin now, that is just the reality of the situation and you have to adjust.
But the fact he’s on a one-year contract and the Mets entered play seven games below .500 has left him as a possible trade chip as the organization looks to replenish the farm system. “Great relievers don’t grow on trees and [Robertson] is having a great season, and he’s handled a lot of the big heavy lifting for us,” Ottavino said. “He’s taking on the middle of the order sometimes outside of the ninth inning and also pitching the ninth inning in a lot of close games and extra innings and multi-innings and a lot of stuff. It will just be an opportunity for somebody else if it were to come to pass and he left.”Ottavino has pitched to a 2.
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