{"id":78841,"date":"2024-07-02T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=78841"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:20:02","slug":"mets-recalled-jose-butto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/02\/mets-recalled-jose-butto\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets Desperately Add Starter To Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a second straight extra inning game, the New York Mets recalled starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/buttojo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3<\/a> from Triple-A on Tuesday. However, New York plans to utilize him as a reliever as it tries to manage a tough stretch. Injuries, suspensions, and lack of off days have quickly put the Mets pitching staff in a dire position.<\/p>\n<h2>New York Mets Desperately Add Starter To Bullpen<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Mets recalled Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3 today from Triple-A Syracuse. They&#39;ve talked about making him a reliever, at least temporarily, to help a taxed bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Jay optioned.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthonyDiComo\/status\/1808184690337050961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the active roster, New York sent lefty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jayty01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Jay<\/a>\u00a0down to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<h3>New York Mets Recall Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3, Option Tyler Jay<\/h3>\n<p>Butt\u00f3 looked solid in his first stint in the majors earlier this year. In seven starts, the righty tossed 38 innings and pitched to a 3.08 ERA (125 ERA+) with 38 strikeouts and 21 walks. He allowed too many walks but pitched well enough overall to stay in the big league rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for him, the Mets demoted Butt\u00f3 out of a necessity for fresh arms. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/29\/new-york-mets-option-tylor-megill\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">This carousel<\/a> has been a theme this season for New York thanks to starters failing to pitch deep into games. Even at full strength, the bullpen cannot realistically cover all of these innings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8LATEST <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/METS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#METS<\/a> NEWS\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Jose Butto has been called back up! <\/p>\n<p>After a less than impressive return to the pen yesterday, Tyler Jay has been sent down<\/p>\n<p>Butto this season (MLB): 3.08ERA 4.41xERA in 7G<\/p>\n<p>Expect NYM to utilize Butto in ways beyond just a starter<\/p>\n<p>THOUGHTS? \ud83d\udc47 <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LGM<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hXjRqyc7ko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/hXjRqyc7ko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tyler (@WardyNYM) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WardyNYM\/status\/1808185929925812231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But, with key relievers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/26\/mets-place-drew-smith-injured-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">currently hurt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/23\/edwin-diaz-sticky-stuff-ejection\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">suspended<\/a>, or over worked, the Mets will get creative in looking to stabilize the bullpen. That starts with recalling Butt\u00f3 and hoping he can provide quality multi-inning stints in relief.<\/p>\n<p>Butt\u00f3&#8217;s stock has risen in the organization over the past year or so. While he&#8217;ll throw out of the bullpen for now, there&#8217;s no reason to think he can&#8217;t start down the line.\u00a0In eight Triple-A starts this year, the 26-year-old pitched 44 1\/3 innings with a 3.05 ERA. He also shown the ability to pitch relatively deep into games, as he&#8217;s thrown less than 5 2\/3 innings just twice in those starts.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like Butt\u00f3 could have earned a spot in the rotation if the Mets <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/30\/mets-considering-trading-veteran-starters\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">sold veteran starters<\/a> at the trade deadline. But with the team currently positioned to buy, Butt\u00f3&#8217;s spot on the active roster this year might very well be in the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: <em>Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a second straight extra inning game, the New York Mets recalled starting pitcher Jos\u00e9 Butt\u00f3 from Triple-A on Tuesday. However, New York plans to utilize him as a reliever as it tries to manage a tough stretch. Injuries, suspensions, and lack of off days have quickly put the Mets pitching staff in a dire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":78853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,926,1071,35],"tags":[28594],"class_list":["post-78841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mets","category-milb","category-mlb","category-news","tag-jose-butto"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}