The Mets announced that RHP Jeurys Familia will rejoin the team in time for their doubleheader today against the Marlins.
After undergoing surgery to remove bone spurs in his elbow last June, Familia has worked hard to get himself back to the big-league team. Going forward, Familia has put himself in line for a significant role in our 2014 bullpen.
During his string of rehab games in the minors, the young righty has pitched well, allowing just one earned run in 12.0 innings of work with a handful of strikeouts.
He looked really sharp for Savannah down the stretch, powering through a scoreless inning in yesterday’s big win with two punch-outs as the Sand Gnats became the South Atlantic League champions.
It is my hope that Familia settles down and hones his control so he can become a very successful reliever. Familia always projected more down the line as a bullpen guy in comparison to Jenrry Mejia, who had a better natural arsenal and command of his secondary pitches. Delegating Familia to a relief role is by no means a knock on him and he should be competing with Vic Black for a spot at the back-end of the bullpen.
I’ve always liked his stuff and reports are that he’s still bringing the heat with late life since he started pitching in games again. Now, he’ll have a couple of weeks to get a leg-up on the competition for next year’s ‘pen.
He has been added to the major league roster for today’s game. Like you said if he and Black can take their command up a notch along with Parnell coming back healthy next year we could have a very good back of the pen three young dynamic power arms to throw at people to close out games.
Hard throwers in the BP has been something lacking on this team for several years. 3 Hard throwers out here would be nice. But Parnell has to be a huge question mark. and Black and Familia too.