Who was the clown that voted for Heilman?

Why is Feliciano in Willie’s doghouse? It seems he only comes in as a last resort. His numbers vs RH were good last year and yet he was only used as a specialist.

I would trust Schoeneweis more then Heilman and alot of the people in the bullpen right now except for Wags. Scott has been very dominant this year

Should it be phrased “Aside from Wagner, who do think will fail least often?”

Typical short-term Mets fans results. Joe Smith would have been the reliever everyone was most confident with last year at this time as well….time demonstrated, however, that Joe Smith post-May, is not so reliable.

Where are all the people who booed John Franco during the 90’s? Take a look at his career numbers and tell me how much you would pay to have someone like Franco now.

I wish we could have a vote where we put them in order. I trust Smith the most, so that’s who I voted for, but I also trust Feliciano, Schoenweiss (can’t believe I’m saying that publicly), and Sanchez. I think the Mets have a fine bullpen, even if Heilman was no longer on the team.

No shock that many of our knee-jerk faithful voted for Joe Smith. Half of your readers would simply vote for whoever looked good in their last outing or two.

This was sadly a tough question, since no one in our bullpen (Wagner aside) has made me feel warm and fuzzy for a while. Feliciano has probably been the most reliable if you look at a larger sample size, with Schoenewies looking pretty good this year.

Sanchez is a crap shoot because we really don’t know where his rehab is at. Heilman has been struggling, and Smith has far too small a track record to bank on right now. He could be one outing a way from a disaster inning. I remember last year he looked this way early and then suddenly dropped off and became a BP pitcher.

I am actually pretty confident about our bullpen overall.

However, we really do need Heilman to straighten himself out, and he’s going to have to get some work in some non-pressure situations to do it. I was quite upset about Willie not taking him out after the first couple of hits last night, and for the first time I disagreed with his move even after hearing his post-game comments about the unavailability of others in the bullpen as a factor. Clearly, he had Smith warming up (and even checked his status on the phone) and should have brought him in sooner.

You can see that, with a bit of tinkering and straightening Heilman out, we could have the makings of a fine pen:

Wagner - closing
Sanchez - 8th
Heilman/Smith/Felciano- 7th
Schoe/Wise- 6th or situational
Figueroa - long man?

(I know that is 8 people, but things will straighten themselves out.)

My answer is faulty because of bullpen roles. I trust Show the most…… against LH, not vs. RH. I trust Smith but his job is to get RH out and does poorly overall against LH and can’t be overused. I trust Feliciano but assume he will put people on base this season. I trust the old Sanchez but realize that he will continue to struggle for a while.
So the answer is that we do not have a setup man right now, PERIOD.

How come Willie doesn’t believe in the long reliever? I hate the lefty-righty switches during the 6th-8th innings. Let them stay in.