The Mets introduced that left-hander Brooks Raley has been positioned on the 15-day injured record as a result of elbow irritation. Righty Grant Hartwig was referred to as up from Triple-A within the corresponding transfer.
Raley has been untouchable to date this season, with a spotless 0.00 ERA (with two hits and three walks) over seven innings out of the New York bullpen. He final pitched on Friday, tossing 20 pitches in two-thirds of an inning within the Mets’ 9-4 win over the Dodgers. Raley’s earlier outing was again on Monday, so it might be that he had been making an attempt to pitch by way of his elbow soreness after taking a few days, or maybe his elbow merely began barking after Friday’s recreation.
It was virtually precisely a yr in the past that Raley was additionally positioned on the Mets’ 15-day IL with a bout of elbow irritation, and he was capable of return after only a minimal absence. Raley and the Mets can solely hope that this newest harm is equally minor, as Raley has an necessary position because the staff’s chief southpaw reliever. With Raley now sidelined, Jake Diekman is the one left-hander in New York’s reduction corps.
Raley has posted a 2.58 ERA, 27.3% strikeout fee, and 9 % stroll fee over 115 1/3 innings because the begin of the 2022 season. Whereas he had a 4.78 ERA in 2021 with the Astros, the superior metrics indicated a efficiency degree nearer to his 2022-24 numbers, so the Rays’ choice to present Raley a two-year, $10MM deal within the 2021-22 offseason ended up being a really canny transfer. The Mets acquired Raley in a commerce in December 2022, after which this previous fall exercised their $6.5MM membership choice on Raley’s companies for the 2024 marketing campaign.