No, the "Pitching Lab" Is Not Real

Brandon Tierney & Sal Licata

In a fiery "Call of the Day," Sal challenged a caller's notion of the Mets' supposed "pitching lab," arguing that it's a myth. He acknowledged that the team uses technology to analyze mechanics but insisted there is no magical lab that automatically transforms pitchers. Sal's point was that attributing success or failure to a non-existent "lab" is foolish and deflects from the real issue: the Mets' failure to develop and maintain pitching excellence. He pressed the caller on why the "lab" hasn't fixed struggling pitchers like David Peterson and Ryan Helsley, asserting that the hype around the "pitching lab" was wildly overblown.