Last night, Mickey Callaway made a crucial decision in the game, which surprisingly, helped lead towards the Mets scoring the winning run in the top of the 12th inning.  Instead of pinch hitting for Robert Gsellman, he sent him up to the plate, and he was plunked by Josh Ravin to lead-off the inning.

Now, there were many things which informed the unuual decision of having a pitcher lead off an inning in extra frames.  Mostly, this was the result of Paul Sewald being unavailable, Gerson Bautista likely unavailable, Seth Lugo and AJ Ramos having already pitched, and Callaway likely holding onto Jeurys Familia for a save inning.

For his career, Gsellman is 6-50, and yet, most Mets fans probably had more faith in Gsellman in that spot than Jose Reyes.

On the season, Reyes is 0-20, and he probably hasn’t even been that good.

So yes, with a the game still in the balance, I’d rather see a reliever hit for himself than see Reyes take the plate.  That’w where things are for Reyes now.  It is better to go with the reliever than trust the guy who simply cannot get a hit.

To rub salt into the wound, Gsellman was kept into the game to run for himself instead of Callaway going to Reyes.  That’s pretty bad when you consider that’s the one thing Reyes actually still does well.