This hardly merits a whole blog post, but here it is anyway: Though last night’s rainout complicates things for the Mets’ starting rotation, it’s definitely good that the entire bullpen got a night off.

The team will have to work double-duty tomorrow, so this doesn’t change the fact that the Mets will need some better efforts from their starters to take some of the burden off their relievers. But since they used five relievers both Sunday and Monday, the bullpen could use a day of rest.

As for the starters: Adam Rubin points out that Dillon Gee is on turn Sunday, and the Mets could send Ryota Igarashi to Triple-A and call up Gee for a spot start. That plan seems a whole lot better to me than handing a spot start to DJ Carrasco, the other likely option. Gee is better stretched out and more likely than Carrasco to pitch deep into a game, and using Carrasco takes an arm out of the bullpen for a couple days prior to and a couple days following the start.