The Mets have moved on from another arm in a bullpen shuffle that has picked up speed over the last few days.
Dan Hammer, a right-handed pitcher who was promoted from Triple-A Syracuse on Thursday, was designated for assignment by New York before he ever got into a game with the club, according to MLB.com's Anthony DiComo.
"The Mets have DFA'd five players in the last four days. Today it's Dan Hammer, who was called up yesterday but never pitched, per source," DiComo wrote on X. "His DFA follows those of Guillo Zuñiga, Alex Carrillo, Matt Seelinger and Jared Oliva, all of whom made 0 or 1 appearances this year."
Hammer, 28, had signed a minor league deal with the Mets in March. He is a former longtime Baltimore Orioles farmhand and has not yet made his MLB debut.
At Syracuse, Hammer put together a 1.77 ERA across 17 games, striking out 21 batters in 20.1 innings. The wrinkle in that line: he also issued 17 walks.
Mets interim manager Andy Green said the constant turnover is part of life when a bullpen gets stretched.
“You go through a season, you run into stretches where the bullpen is taxed,” Mets interim manager Andy Green told DiComo.
“It comes in waves. You get stretches where you can’t get them enough innings, and then you get stretches where it’s like you can’t get them off the mound," Green said. "This revolving carousel of one spot tends to happen to all teams at different points of time during the season."
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