With a 5.33 ERA through thirteen games of the 2020 season, the Mets’ bullpen has hardly been special, ranking 24th out of 30 teams in Major League Baseball in ERA. Despite the struggles of several of its pitchers, though, there have been some good early performances mixed in, and Jeurys Familia’s first six appearances have been a drastic improvement upon his 2019 performance.
We are, of course, talking about just five-and-two-thirds innings of work here, but the 2020 season hasn’t afforded anyone the luxury of waiting several weeks or months to see how things develop over the course of a full baseball season.