Everyone sings the good team, Bullpen Blues Bad

Are you a fan of a team in the play -off position? Do you tear out your hair because their bullpen have not been able to get someone out in recent weeks? Does this start to get creepy? Does it feel like I’m stare right in your soul? Don’t worry. I just play the opportunities. Below is a table that shows bullpen performance in the last 14 days, but only for the 13 teams with at least 12% chance to make the play -offs. I have emphasized the teams whose era is about that piece in the lower half of the competition:

There are the Red Sox in fifth place and looks solid with an ERA of 3.40. But uh, this is not exactly an encouraging sign for all these playoff teams. That is a lot of yellow. Boston is the only team in the top 10; No one else has a bull pen era under 4.00. Only five of these teams are even in the upper half of the competition. The Mets, Yankees, Cubs and Blue Jays all have eras of more than 5.00.

The Brewers are tied up with the twins for the competition cable with five blown saves in the past two weeks. The Blue Jays and Phillies each have four. Just a memory: the Brewers have the best record in baseball and the Blue Jays and Phillies are bound to the second best. Suddenly none of them can take out a game to save their lives.

Again, I have to reject every supernatural influence here. I don’t think there is a paranormal reason that the bullpen of every good baseball team is in a rut. It is usually a coincidence. If we look at FIP, things are much more reasonable. Six of our 13 teams are in the top 10 and only four are in the lower half of the competition. That is just about what you would expect. Most good teams have strong bullpens. This is a short piece, a small monster of innings and a fleeting cohort to start with. The Bullpen van de Bewers has an excellent 3.29 FIP in the last two weeks, but it is still five rescues. Things happen.

I will break the four teams at the bottom of the table, along with a few others that I found remarkable because of injuries, or because I am worried about those who are on my way to the play -offs, but that is especially what I wanted to tell you. All Bullpens now seem to blow up. It’s weird. If you tear out your hair because we are in September and you cannot stick to a pipe, relax. First, there can be enough time to straighten the ship. Secondly, anyone who you also encountered in the Play -Offs cannot take a lead now, unless it is the Red Sox (who gave up eight points in a Bullpen game last night, probably because that is what all cool children do).

Masony
The Mets lead the competition with no fewer than six relievers on the IL now: Reed Garrett” Drew Smith” Danny Young” Aj minter” Max KranickAnd Deniel Núñez. Smith, Minter, Kranick and Garrett had all thrown well before their injuries. That has lost four good relievers, and only Garrett has the chance to return this season. That is how the Mets finally claimed Wander SerumWho in the last two seasons only thrown 6 1/3 Major League -Ininning, from the Braves off declarations yesterday. Suero has a 1.35 ERA and 2.63 FIP over 46 2/3 innings in Triple-a Gwinnett, and he gets the chance to prove that this is not a coincidence. The Mets called him less than half an hour ago to take the spot of wrestling Kodai SengaIt was chosen Syracuse.

More than that, Ryan Helsley Has been completely not effective since the deadline trade that brought him from St. Louis to New York. He had an ERA of 3.00 and 3.56 FIP as Cardinal, and he has an ERA of 11.45 and 6.50 FIP as with. Helsley said that last week He thinks he has tilted pitches. With a bit of luck he gets that solved. If he does that and Garrett will come back well, they will participate Tyler Rogersleft Brooks Raley And Gregory Sotoand closer Edwin DíazWho all deliver good grades this season. Somehow the Mets could still put together a solid bull pen that entered the play -offs.

Dodgers
The relievers of the Dodgers are in third place in the Majors with 5.2 war this season, but that is mainly because they have been asked to throw 570 1/3 innings, the most in baseball. At the moment Rosterresource says that they are tied to the Brewers in five injured relievers, one behind the Mets. They lost Evan Phillips To Tommy John Surgery in May, Deadline -Acquisition Brock Stewart went on the il with shoulder inflammation almost immediately after the trade, and Alex shutters Seft a sloping sloping on August 21. Jack Dreyer” Justin WobleskiAnd Ben Casparis are the only relievers in the team with FIPs under 3.50. Tanner Scott And Kirby Yates His load-doding documents that have taken major steps back and have also lost time to injuries, and yet the Dodgers are still one of the higher teams on the list. After missing time with the forearm earlier in the season, Blake trains has only allowed two points in its last 12 performances and his era has fallen to 3.00.

Yankees
The headliner here is the 5.60 era that Devin Williams has set up this season, but as Michael Baumann wrote earlier today, the underlying figures are not that bad. They may even be good. The Yankees lost Jake Cousins To Tommy John Surgery in June and Jonathan Caoisiga To a Flexor tribe in August. Brent Headrick is also on the IL after taking a line ride of his pitching arm. The Yankees have also suffered Paul Blackburn And Yerry de Los Santos. They pulled the plug on Deadline -acquisition Jake Bird Almost immediately. He had a 4.73 ERA and and 3.50 FIP in Colorado before the deadline, but he only got three games for the Yankees, which made six runs over two innings before he was chosen as Triple-A, where he continued to struggle. Luke Weaver has recently been bitten by the Home Run -Bug, so that four in its last seven performances for an era of 5.14 allows. His average exit speed over that piece, however, is lower than the rest of the season, and he has run a 2.53 XFIP. It looks more like bad luck than anything.

Fernando Cruz And David Bednar have been his lights out, Tim Hill is still a ground ball machine, and Camilo Doval has not allowed a point in its last five performances. Throughout the season, the Yankees Bullpen has a 3.93 XFIP, bound for the second best baseball. In the past two weeks they have the second best FIP ​​despite the horrible era. It is hard to imagine that they make a run without Williams and Weaver (the deadly W’s) turn things around, but this is also not necessarily a disastrous pen.

Cubs
According to most statistics, the Bullpen Cubs was in the middle of the peloton this year. In the past two weeks, the 3.05 XFIP is the third best in baseball. So why are the era and FIP so ugly? That is the danger of playing in Homer-Friendly Wigley Field in August. In that piece, 21.1% of their airballs went for home runs, the second only for the Rockies (and not coincidentally, they recently spent a three-game series in Colorado). Drew Pomeranz And Taylor Rogers Have set up good seasons, but have each given up a few gayers in recent weeks, and because the Cubs have been familiar with less than every other team on their bullpen, those mistakes have been enlarged. Nothing that has happened in the past two weeks has made me change my opinion about this auxiliary corps.

Phillies
The bullpen from Philadelphia has been a problem all year round. Signing sessions from Free Agent Joe Ross And Jordan Romano I did not work out at all, so that a combined -0.5 war has set over 86 performances and 93 2/3 innings. The good news is that the Bullpen now looks very different. The Phillies released Ross and Romano became the il with inflammation of the middle finger. They have signed David Robertson in free agency in July, traded for Jhoan Duran at the deadline, and got Ster Lefty José Alvarado Back from an 80-game ped-suspension on August 20. Alvardo looked very rusty since his return and will not be available for the play-offs, but Robertson and Duran have been excellent. Along with Matt Strahm” Orion ChurchAnd Tanner BanksThe Phillies must have a usable, if superficial bullpen that go to October. Of Zack Wheeler and out AARON NOLA Struggling, the rotation can be the greater care.

Blue Jays
How much time do you have? The Blue Jays had the worst bull pen in baseball in 2024, and if nothing else they seemed ready to bounce back. They have Jordan Romano non-sins. They have signed the excellent Jeff Hoffmantraded for Nick Sandlinreduced Yimi García And Ryan Yarbroughand took flyers on arms such as Amir Garrett” Jacob BarnesAnd Richard Lovelady. And they have been reflected. They are in the middle of the peloton in both ERA and FIP, and seventh in XFIP. Lately, however, they simply cannot seem to be.

They released Yarbrough for the season. The kites they took have not succeeded, nor have internal guys like Chad green” Zach PopAnd Erik Swanson. They have lost large pieces, with both Sandlin and García for the season. Other injuries forced Easton Lucas And Eric Lauer In starting roles, where they have performed considerably worse. Hoffman set up three ugly versions in the last week of August, although he looked much better in the past week. Although the underlying figures are not bad, deadline acquisition Louis Varland Has an ERA of 6.91 in 15 performances like a blue Jay.

If Hoffman can set up things, if the happiness of Varland can turn around, if Luke and Lauer can come back to the bullpen, if the poor people have brought here – Yariel Rodríguez” Brendon Little” Braydon Fisher – Can continue to do what they do, the Blue Jays can have a decent bull pen that goes into the play -offs. But that is a lot of IFS.