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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 2984894, member: 210"]
Two points, historically, Familia has been terrible in non-save situations and the last few games were non-save scenarios until the crappy pen turned then into tense, save situations. Secondly the team has to be able to close out games in which they are up 5 runs or more without pulling in the big guns. At the end of the day the pen is filled with major league pitchers and they either need to perform or we need to find new pitchers.

The athletic has a great preview of the Nats series which has stats that show just how unsustainable their current offensive explosion is. They have the second highest swing and miss rate and their BABIP is over 90 points higher than the league average to date and over 70 higher than where the league typically ends up after a full season. Basically they are getting very lucky on the balls they put into play and they strike out too much. When you account for those stats plus the fact that the Mets perform worse, historically, at Citi than on the road, you can almost predict an offensive regression is coming.

The pen needs to step up its game, or just like last year, it's going to prevent the Mets from being competitive despite all of the other good things they have done so far.
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