If the 2019 season seems like it happens a decade ago, that’s pretty normal these days, but it’s doubtful that any Mets fans have forgotten how poorly the bullpen performed in it. Last year, Mets relievers combined for a 4.99 ERA, the fifth-worst mark in all of baseball, as the collective group of relievers very well might have cost the Mets a playoff spot over the course of the full season.
With Major League Baseball having forced a 60-game season that’s scheduled to begin in late July this year, one big rule change is that teams will start the season with a 30-man active roster instead of the originally-planned 26-man roster, which was a change from the longstanding practice of 25-man active rosters.