Go check out the graph at Beyond the Boxscore charting relief appearances per game for each Major League team. Then consider this: By ERA+, the Brewers, Pirates and Dodgers — the teams nearest the Mets at the bottom of the list — all have terrible to below-average pitching staffs. And the Dodgers are managed by noted bullpen-abuser Joe Torre. The Mets’ staff, hard as it may be to believe, has been slightly above average this season.