According to Andy Martino, Mets have optioned Manny Acosta to AAA to make room for Ryota Igarashi. Jenry Mejia will stay in the bullpen and according to Jerry Manuel will “do what he did in the 7th inning”.
-Faced with two pitchers on the DL, one pitcher in the bullpen and getting your 8th inning guy back…Mejia still manages to stay on the squad. I know it may take up to even August for Mejia to be stretched out as a starter but what a shot in the arm it would be going down the stretch to have a guy like Mejia be available to start if needed. Hammys are a nagging type of injury and might plague Niese all year while who the hell really knows what up with Maine, throw in Oliver Perez being…well…Oliver Perez and what you have to do is give yourself as many options as possible if this team expects to contend for a playoff spot. Our starting pitcher depth pretty much has evaporated in one month. Mejia got a whole lot of experience in the majors and proved he could hang, now the teams need is starting pitching and since that was always the plan with Mejia…might want to start getting that done now…especially with your 8th inning guy back.
5 comments
DNDJohan aka kistics
5/23/2010-8:29am at 8:29 am (UTC -4)
Well… I think for Mejia’s sake and for his future, I would like to see him go to the minors. But he’s clearly a better pitcher than Acosta and with the shortened pitching staff, this is probably the right move for the team.
I also would like to see Misch up and send Dessens back down to the minors. Have Misch take a place in the rotation and Valdes as the 6/7th inning guy, but then with Ollie, too many LHPs (damn it Ollie!)
We also can clearly see that Nieve isn’t what he used to be. Maybe the hitters figured him out or his workload is catching up to him. Same thing with Feliciano. He’s a Loogy and not much more.
njstuckintx
5/23/2010-8:41am at 8:41 am (UTC -4)
I’m thinking we’re going to have Mejia all year long. He’ll get about 65-70 innings of work, and 450 innings worth of warming up. He’ll be ready for the official stretching come “catchers & pitchers” sometime in February.
stickguy
5/23/2010-8:46am at 8:46 am (UTC -4)
might depend on what happens with the Ax (manager, long shot at GM), and also their record.
If they stay in the hunt, Jerry destroys him beating him like a mule.
If they collapse and fall way out of the race, he may go down since it won’t matter anymore.
stickguy
5/23/2010-8:39am at 8:39 am (UTC -4)
I think that Jerry and Omar (or whoever is making the FO calls) are about the only people that think Mejia should be up at this point.
And Kistics, I disagree that right now, based on results, that Mejia is “better” than acosta. More raw FB, but I don’t know that Acosta isn’t currently a moe effective pitcher.
Still time to send Jenrry down when they call up Misch or whoever as aSP/long man, but most likely tht ends up being dessens going.
ANd oh, have they signed Maya yet??
anyway, more than just wanting him getting ready as a SP, I am wrried that Jerry will start Neiving Mejias arm off of him, by overusing a stil developing 20 YO arm.
trs86
5/23/2010-12:24pm at 12:24 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t think anything is as clear cut as we think it is.
Perhaps they worked out a plan for him as to what his season development would look like and now they don’t want to go away from that yet.
They also said they would not use him for more than 100 innings this year. Thus that would get him about 15-18 starts for the ENTIRE season. They had always planned on limiting him to that and then sending to winter league.