page_title: Jerry Blevins
section_title: New York Mets
hierarchical_section_title: Jerry Blevins / Professional career / New York Mets
caption_attribution_description: English: Jerry Blevins of the New York Mets. 2016
context_page_description: Jerry Richard Blevins, nicknamed Gordo, is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. Blevins was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 17th round of the 2004 Major League Baseball draft, and made his major league debut in 2007. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves.
context_section_description: On March 30, 2015, Blevins was traded to the New York Mets for outfielder Matt den Dekker.
  On April 19, 2015, Blevins was hit by a comebacker and suffered a distal radius fracture of the left arm and was placed on the 15-day disabled list. Blevins was recovering when he slipped on a curb and re-fractured his arm again, and missed the rest of the season. Blevins finished the 2015 season 1-0 with 4 strikeouts, no walks, no hits, and no hit batsmen in 5 innings pitched. As of 2020, no player has pitched more innings in a season without giving up a hit, walk, or HBP.
  On December 15, 2015, Blevins signed a one-year, $4 million deal with incentives. In 2016 he was 4-2 with two saves and a 2.79 ERA and 52 strikeouts in 42 innings over 73 games. 	
  On February 9, 2017, Blevins signed a one-year contract with the Mets that included a team option for the 2018 season.
  In 2017 he was 6-0 with one save and a 2.94 ERA and 69 strikeouts over 49 innings in 75 games (3rd in the NL).  In 2017 he threw a curveball 50.1% of the time, tops in MLB.
  On June 24, 2018, at Citi Field, after a late injury to Jason Vargas, Blevins made his first Major League start. He allowed home runs to the first two batters he faced, Enrique Hernández and Max Muncy of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Blevins became only the second pitcher since 1900 to allow home runs to both of the first two hitters in his first career start. He was pulled after two innings.
  On August 16 during the Mets' 24-4 rout of the Phillies, Blevins had his first MLB hit and RBI. It came off of position player Scott Kingery who was pitching with the Phillies trailing by 17 runs 
  In 2018 he was 3-2 with a 4.85 ERA in 42.2 innings over 64 games.
caption: Blevins with the Mets in 2016
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