"This is embarrassing, this is actually pathetic, like pathetic, Ottavino said on his Baseball & Coffee podcast. I would've never let this happen if I was on the team last year. At least half of these guys wouldn't have blown out. I would have protected these dudes myself; I would have had to jump in front of them myself. Unfortunately, there was nobody willing to stand up and talk to Carlos this year; it was just me, I guess. So a little bit of an issue there."
"It's funny because they were bragging about keeping people healthy the year before, when it had nothing to do with them, Ottavino said. So yeah, I'm a little annoyed because these are guys"
The New York Mets' 2025 season collapsed largely because the pitching staff produced almost nothing, with injuries and inconsistencies forcing manager Carlos Mendoza to use an MLB-record 46 pitchers. Former reliever Adam Ottavino criticized the handling of pitcher health and said he would have intervened to protect teammates. Several key arms suffered serious injuries: Frankie Montas (elbow), Kodai Senga (hamstring), Griffin Canning (ruptured Achilles), AJ Minter (lat), and Sean Manaea (oblique delayed debut). Veterans were demoted, released, or lost for the season, and rotation and bullpen instability undermined team performance after 2024's success.
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