Brodie Van Wagenen spent a chunk of his first offseason with the Mets revamping the bullpen that finished 2018 with the third-worst ERA in MLB.
Twenty-eight games into 2019, the Mets were right back in the same spot.
There was still plenty of season left entering Tuesday’s game against the Reds at Citi Field, but the Mets’ relievers were adamant that a small sample size — a 5.45 bullpen ERA through the first month-plus of games — will not soon turn into a worrying trend.
“I don’t put too much thought into ERA. An ERA is a statistic.