But the Mets switched gears last weekend because they deemed it not worth the risk and wanted their best pitcher to throw a long bullpen session. DeGrom said he would have liked to hone his command in a second inning, but admitted throwing 45 pitches in one inning “might be harder” than 100 in an entire start. After dealing with many injuries over the previous three seasons, the Mets beefed up their medical operation. Callaway said over the weekend that Cespedes has wanted to play and estimated that he was playing at “probably 85 percent” health. He said players play through minor aches and pains often, but he said the Mets believed it was necessary to have Cespedes’s potent bat in a sputtering lineup.

Source: New York Times May 13, 2018 21:58 UTC