On Friday, Terry Collins said the Mets would be reverting back to the five-man rotation, and they would be sending a veteran back to the bullpen in the process.
It was widely speculated Dillon Gee would get the demotion, and on Saturday, Collins announced Gee was officially sent to the bullpen.
Collins said he met with Gee to let him know the club’s decision and formally apologized to him for making him pitch in rehab games unnecessarily and offering him neither stability or certainty in his role to this point in the year.
Despite the apology, Gee was not happy with the decision.
“I felt like any value – if I had any at all – before this, it’s probably gone,” Gee said vehemently before Saturday’s game in Phoenix. “What am I going to do out of the pen? I felt like there’s really not a whole lot of good that comes from it.”
“I’m almost at the point now where I don’t even care anymore,” Gee continued. “I’m kind of just over it all.”
Gee has vowed to do the best he can in his new role, but believes his value both to the team and in trade has been greatly diminished.
“There’s nothing I can do. Obviously, I’m going to do the best I can. My biggest concern is that if there was any glimmer of value before this, I don’t see how there would be any more when I get moved to the pen, the value trade-wise or value to the team. I’m definitely unproven in the pen.”
“You don’t know what you’re going to get, but you know what you’re going to get out of the guys that are already there,” Gee concluded.
It’s hard to blame Gee at all for being upset.
The Mets have done nothing but jerk him around since the moment he parked his car at Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie in February. He’s gone to the bullpen, struggled, was put back in the rotation when Zack Wheeler went down, then he found himself in a horse race with Rafael Montero in the last week of camp, then he gets hurt and is kept on his rehab assignment unnecessarily, now he’s back in the bullpen.
He’s gone through all of this and dealt with trade rumors in the process.
Again, it’s understandable he’s angry with the club, whether he should be in the rotation or not.
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5 responses to “Mets officially send Dillon Gee to the bullpen, and he isn’t happy”
His attitude is just as awful as his pitching, apparently. Don’t need people like him on this team if we want to win. Correct response should be “I’ll be happy to do whatever it takes to get a W on the board” not “Oh no I won’t make as much money in arb this ear (which you know is all he’s thinking about) because you stuck me in the pen and I lost me innings.” Piss poor attitudes don’t belong on winning teams.
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Its hard to feel too bad when he is making over 5 million. Sure he is a human being and is welcome to still have feelings but some of these players making the kind of money they make should be happy they are still in the game. Its about performance and he hasnt performed. If he had performed he wouldnt be in this situation to begin with. At best he is a 5th starter on some teams that have weaker pitching.
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Exactly! Daniel Murphy walked into Terry Collins’ office earlier this week and demanded to be put at 3rd because it would help the team win. And here is Dillon Gee crying about a move to the bullpen. Dillon is easily the 6th/7th best starter on this teams entire roster, what a poor sport to complain about this.
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Last 3 starts before injury:
7 Innings – 2 Runs
7.2 Innings – 1 Run
5 Innings – 1 Run.
Terrible pitcher.
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Sure, go to work, have no idea what your role is. Get told you’re being demoted, and then because someone is unable to do the job, get your original role back. Do pretty good at your job, get sick, miss time, come back have one bad day, and get demoted again.
Then tell me how you’ll do what’s best for the company. Sport fans are so unrealistic sometimes… these people are human.
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