Jerry Blevins Falls Off A Curb, Re-Fractured His Arm

Pro Hardball Talk – Brutal news for Mets left-hander Jerry Blevins. Blevins was making enough progress in his recovery from a distal radius fracture in his left arm suffered in April that the Mets were hoping to have him as a bullpen option in September. Instead he’ll miss the remainder of the season and will require surgery after slipping while stepping off a curb Monday and re-fracturing the same bone. Blevins tossed five scoreless innings for the Mets prior to the injury and has a 3.53 ERA with 309 strikeouts in 329 career innings as a big leaguer. He was acquired from the Nationals this offseason in exchange for outfielder Matt den Dekker. New York added to its southpaw reliever depth by getting Eric O’Flaherty from Oakland prior to knowing the severity of the Blevins news, so he’ll join Rule 5 pick Sean Gilmartin as the Mets’ primary lefties.

You know when Dr. Malcolm says “Life, uh, finds a way” in Jurassic Park? Thats the Mets and this story right here. The Mets having the best pitching staff in baseball and an offense that is as confident as any in the league is equivalent to Jurassic Park only having female dinosaurs. Its should be foolproof. There should be no way anything can go wrong there. And yet, the Mets, uh, find a way.

Its why I cant stand people right now who are giving me shit for thinking despite how well they’re playing now, the season will somehow end in heartbreak. Because shit like this always happens to the Mets. They’re cursed. Doomed. Weird, funny, bizarre, butt-of-every-joke things seem to always happen to the Mets. And poor Jerry Blevins is the latest victim here. That curb no doubt was cursed with some sort of Mets Black Magic Sorcery and forced that fall. Reinjuring that arm was sheer bad, Mets luck. So yea I’m cautiously optimistic what the Mets can do here as we approach September but I also see stories like this and that cautious optimism turns to realistic pessimism.

PS – I know Blevins could have been a nice arm in the pen. Lord knows the relief pitching has been very shaky since the break. But people saying this is Duaner Sanchez 2.0 are nuts. Blevins appeared in 7 games for the Mets before he got hurt. Duaner Sanchez was the key to that pen and his injury forced an awkward shitty deadline trade. I dont think Jerry Blevins falling off the curb will have the same impact as Duaner Sanchez’s injury ruining the Mets year to win the World Series.