Should the Mets shut down struggling veteran Sean Manaea?

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00:00Should Sean Minaya still be in the rotation?

00:02No, he shouldn't still be in this rotation.

00:04That's a problem that I have, right?

00:06Because we saw Mets skipper Carlos Mendoza postgame last night

00:09at the time I was talking right now saying how he will be in the next turn

00:12in the order for the rotation.

00:13And on one hand, you say to yourself, you understand it

00:16because the Mets are so depleted right now.

00:18You already sent down Kodai Senga.

00:20All your veterans aren't performing.

00:21They can't rely on too many kids at the same time.

00:24But in that same breath, Sean Minaya is 3-8 or so this season.

00:27He hasn't went to the sixth inning once.

00:30He's allowed two home runs in three of his five outings or so,

00:33which has not looked good at all.

00:35So when you look at what he's providing,

00:37this is a guy that needs surgery at the end of the year

00:39with that loose body in his elbow.

00:41I think it's time to put him on the injured list now.

00:43I really don't see how much more the Mets are going to benefit

00:46by having almost a lock for a guy that's going to be giving them meatballs,

00:49batting practice over three to tops five innings every fifth, sixth day.

00:54And that's why this six-man rotation, I really do wonder at the Mets

00:58after maybe one more blunder and Minaya finally say to themselves,

01:01okay, now's the time that we're going to take him out.

01:03It should have happened probably two starts prior at minimum,

01:06but I feel that they're going to go down that route

01:08unless Sean finally proves himself the next time out there.

01:11I got a stat here for you.

01:12It says that early, in the first three innings, he has a 3.0 ERA,

01:17but then through four through six, he has a 10.34 ERA.

01:22So why, if you're Carlos Mendoza,

01:24why are you even still entertaining Sean Minaya being a starter in this rotation?

01:30I think it goes in direct, Tam, with what I just said.

01:32They don't really have any options left.

01:33That's the problem.

01:34You already called up McClain.

01:36You already called up Ton.

01:37You already called up Spro.

01:38All the guys that we talked in studio about previously before they got here,

01:41they're all doing their thing for the most part.

01:43But outside of that, the Mets don't really have another immediate solution

01:46in the farm right now.

01:48And when you look at not just Minaya's struggles,

01:50when you look at Kodai Senga's struggles,

01:52when you look at David Peterson, when you look at Clay Holmes,

01:54the commonalities every single veteran starter in this rotation

01:58has not been good for pretty much a month and a half now.

02:01And that's a major problem when you now have right around two weeks to spare to play,

02:05and you're just two games ahead now of the Giants in the wild card.

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