Tyler Clippard

Reed could be missing piece in Mets' bullpen

Published Aug. 31, 2015 6:05 p.m. ET

Owen Watson

The 2015 season did not go as planned for Addison Reed with the Diamondbacks. But now, following a midseason adjustment at Reno, he could be a key ingredient in the Mets' bullpen as they march toward postseason play.

Reed started the season as the Diamondbacks' closer but endured a brutal month and a half in which he seemingly couldn't deliver a putaway pitch. He was so ineffective that he not only lost his closer's job, but was shortly thereafter dispatched to Reno to figure things out.

And so, it would seem, he did.

After compiling a 5.92 ERA and 1.73 WHIP over the first half of the season, Reed has sliced those numbers to 1.65 and 1.16 in the second half. That performance was what the Mets were banking on when they sent two lower-level prospects to Arizona in hopes of finding a steady seventh-inning reliever to bridge the gap between the talented starting rotation and eighth- and ninth-inning guys Tyler Clippard and Jeurys Familiar.

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