Mets need help now & Rosario is a start

MILWAUKEE —With the Mets missing three of their biggest players with injuries and struggling to stay afloat, Jacob deGrom might be asking too much of the team in the clubhouse right now. After a week that began with Matt Harvey’s no-show suspension drama and included losing closer Jeurys Familia for three to four months, Sunday’s 11-9 loss to the Brewers was just an absolutely crushing defeat. But deGrom was trying to rally his team. “The injuries are unfortunate. We can’t help that,” deGrom said. “We’ve got what we’ve got here and we’ve got to do a better job. “That’s all there is to it.” But can the Mets really expect to turn things around with this same group? No. They need help from somewhere quickly.

With Noah Syndergaard (torn right lat muscle) out until after the All-Star break, Familia (surgery to remove an arterial clot in right shoulder) out until at least late in the season and Yoenis Cespedes (strained hamstring) out at least a few more weeks, the Mets are scuffling to just get by. Steven Matz (elbow discomfort) and Seth Lugo (torn UCL) are still weeks away. There is no timetable for catcher Travis d’Arnaud (right wrist bruise) or David Wright (cervical disc herniation).

Asdrubal Cabrera is trying to play through with what he said Sunday is a torn ligament in his left thumb and is unlikely to be available on Monday. That raised the obvious question about bringing up top prospect Amed Rosario.

Terry Collins took a long pause after he was asked if the Mets needed to bring in outside help. The Mets manager deferred to general manager Sandy Alderson, who had left immediately after the game, when asked specifically about Rosario.

“Those aren’t my calls because I don’t know anything about the guy. I don’t know how he’s playing, and if they think he’s not ready mentally. I don’t know any of that stuff. I stay outside of that stuff,” Collins said. “My boss is pretty sharp. He knows he’s made a lot of right moves when to bring guys up and he’ll do this right, too.” So, the GM’s next move is critical. The infield defense could certainly use the energy of the 21-year-old shortstop, who is hitting .355 through 35 games in Triple-A right now. But the Mets’ more urgent need is the pitching. Nothing showed how much they need to bolster their bullpen with a reliable veteran reliever better than Sunday’s disaster. Every reliever that Collins tried Sunday gave up a run; he could not find an answer to stop the bleeding as the Mets coughed up a six-run lead.

The final blow was backup catcher Manny Pina’s three-run shot off Addison Reed in the eighth. It was devastating because Reed, who has now given up five homers in 19 innings, one more than he gave up in 77.2 last season, is expected to fill in for Familia.

And Sunday he said he doesn’t know what’s going wrong. “I really have no idea. I don’t go back and look at video. I am the wrong person to ask about that,” Reed said when asked why he’s been leaving pitches up and giving up home runs. he bullpen has been hurt by the starting pitchers’ struggles, no doubt. The rotation has the worst ERA in the majors and has pitched the third fewest innings in the National League. Collins tried to push deGrom through the seventh Sunday to try and take some of the pressure off his relievers, but it obviously imploded.

“This is the big leagues. They are down there. That’s their jobs. Their jobs are to come in and get outs, and when you call on them they have to come in and do the job,” Collins said. “Eventually got to try to find someone else. Today was a day we didn’t get an out when we needed an out, we didn’t make a pitch when we needed to make a pitch.”

The Mets aren’t going to find those answers inside their clubhouse anytime soon.

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