If he wasn’t already prior to yesterday’s game, Aaron Heilman is officially a liability with this team.

Despite finishing each season the past few years with reliable numbers to warrant him a bullpen spot for the next season, his situational statistics for his career are just awful.

Prior to yesterday’s game:

With nobody on base - 274 games, 235.1 innings pitched, 2.10 ERA

Prior to yesterday’s game:

Runners on base - 242 games, 203.0 innings pitched, 6.69 ERA

Runners in scoring position - 187 games, 121.1 innings pitched, 9.10 ERA

Runners in scoring position with two outs - 163 games, 54.2 innings pitched, 19.92 ERA

With the bases loaded - 46 games, 15.1 innings pitched, 7.04 ERA

Heilman is now currently 2-7 with a 5.74 ERA on the 2008 season.

I am not too sure what to do with Heilman. He clearly needs to head to Triple-A and work on something. He is simply not cutting it in the majors right now. I would prefer not to even see him on this team in 2009. The Mets can’t bare to have Heilman around during the stretch run. They can’t afford to lose any games and it seems like almost every other game he is in, he finds a way to blow it.

Moving him back into the middle-inning role won’t do the trick.

Take what you can for him Omar, anything. Just get him off my team.

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