MIAMI — Jeurys Familia can rest when the season is over.
Though the Mets reliever was shelved Wednesday night — he had appeared in the team’s previous three games — there are no plans to scale back the right-hander’s usage, according to pitching coach Dan Warthen.
Familia is 2-4 with a 2.10 ERA in 66 appearances for the Mets this season.
“We want him to be somewhere in the 75-80 appearance range,” Warthen said before the Mets beat the Marlins 4-3. “He’s feeling great, there [have] been no issues whatsoever. We’ll use him as long as we have a winning chance and there will be no concerns.”
As worried as the Mets were about Giancarlo Stanton’s thunderous bat, manager Terry Collins said there was no way he would use Familia, even for one batter, on Wednesday.
Stanton hit a solo homer in the eighth against Carlos Torres before Jenrry Mejia earned his 23rd save after pitching a scoreless ninth.
“You set down a policy and you stick by it,” Collins said. “You take the heat, because that’s the way it is. You can’t sacrifice next year for an at-bat in the middle of September when you could have avoided it. Or when the policy said, ‘Hey we’re going to avoid this.’ I’m just not going to sacrifice his whole year for one at-bat, and I’ll take the [criticism] because of, it because it comes with the territory.”
A night after saying he again felt “dangerous” at the plate, David Wright struck out four times in an 0-for-5 performance.
Collins said he ideally would like to bat rookie Dilson Herrera second.
“But I’m not quite brave enough to put him there just yet,” Collins said.
Herrera, batting seventh, has five RBIs in his last four games.