Dubious NY Mets record is close to being set with 73 games left in the season

The trend for the New York Mets at the moment is to get innings. From anyone, from anywhere, of any belief system, body type, or color, they need you to get them outs. It’s why if the Grimace first pitch happened this week we probably would have seen him signed to a big league deal by now.

Through the course of a season, players are bound to get demoted, hurt, or released. The Mets have been doing a lot of each of these with the injuries being most problematic. Those are out of your control and you just have to hold steady in early July before the trade deadline gets close enough to take some real action.

After their 89th game and a win over the New York Yankees, the Mets are up to 33 pitchers used on the season. It’s tied with their total in all of 2022. Only three seasons in franchise history have they used more. We already know several candidates who’ll add to this total.

The Mets are on the verge of using more pitchers in a single season than they have

Sean Manaea is going to add to the total. We have yet to see Rico Garcia or Zach Pop pitch in a game for them. If all three simply log an inning, hopefully many more for Manaea, we’re already at 36 which puts them one behind the 2023 and 2024 total of 37.

Way back in the year 2021, the Mets set a new franchise record for most pitchers used in a season. It took 42 able-bodied men to get them to their 77-85 record on the season.

It took the Mets quite some time in 2025 to even make a roster move, but in recent weeks they’ve constantly shuffled around the bullpen and rotation. Seven different players have logged only one game, including Jared Young who happens to be the lone one on the list without a run charged to him. Jose Urena, Kevin Herget, Tyler Zuber, Colin Poche, Jonathan Pintaro, and a second position player, Travis Jankowski, have each logged a single game to bring this total so high as of July 5.

This is both the style of the game these days with David Stearns anticipating, accepting, and leaning into the tactic. With the trade deadline at the end of the month and at least two more pitchers being a must plus rehabbing Brooks Raley on the way back, we can safely up our total to 39. Surely, there’s at least another 4 arms in the minors, waiver wire, or Independent League who’ll find their way to Flushing to give the Mets a dubious franchise record that might not last all that long.