Slow night in the low minors as St. Lucie had the day off (for reals) and Savannah was rained out. In the high minors, the magic numbers were 7 & 6.
Buffalo 7, Charlotte 6
There have been some who have been calling for Matt Harvey to be called up to the Mets in the wake of Mike Pelfrey’s replacements not passing muster. Chris Schwinden had a dud performance and I don’t think anyone is overly excited about Miguel Batista. That being said, outings like yesterday’s demonstrate that Harvey, while close, is not 100% ready for the big stage yet. In six innings, he gave up four runs on seven hits and two walks. Not great, but not awful, and he did strike out six. The walks aren’t a huge problem but he is allowing too many base runners. The Herd erupted for five runs in the eighth inning thanks to clutch doubles from Josh Satin and Dustin Martin.
Binghamton 7, New Hampshire 6
Jefry Marte’s two run home in the top of the seventh put the B-Mets on top for good, and Robbie Carson allowed a run in the ninth but hung on to seal the win. Matt den Dekker’s hitting streak is now at nine as he added a homer and three RBI, and Sean Kazmar also went deep. Greg Peavey went five innings surrendering five runs but Armando Rodriguez tossed two scoreless innings for the win.
8 comments
srt
5/14/2012-8:36am at 8:36 am (UTC -4)
I’m in the camp of not rushing Harvey, even though we need a 5th starter.
If he’s close, but needs some polish still, I’m all for leaving him down there and maybe a Sep. call-up.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed we can tread water with that spot rest of May and Young really will be ready by June.
Bryan
5/14/2012-10:04am at 10:04 am (UTC -4)
I think that Harvey is roughly 6-9 starts away from being a serious consideration for a major league call up. He needs the innings, he needs to work on his control more, and he still isn’t dominating AAA the way you’d like from a top prospect.
Stick
5/14/2012-10:08am at 10:08 am (UTC -4)
so that would put him at roughly 7/1 or so if he goes on a good stretch now. Seems reasonable, but let him figure it out in AAA even if it takes all season.
Bryan
5/14/2012-12:05pm at 12:05 pm (UTC -4)
absolutely, you have to wait til he figures out AAA and is ready, but you shouldn’t even consider it until he has a healthy number of innings as adequate preparation.
trs86
5/14/2012-12:39pm at 12:39 pm (UTC -4)
I had tickets for the Harvey game yesterday but was sure it would be rained out. It was nasty out.
That being said looking at the boxscore he pitched well until the 6th inning and then kind of imploded a little.
trs86
5/14/2012-1:08pm at 1:08 pm (UTC -4)
Hey TRDMinor league guys. I was wondering what is up with Darrell Ceciliani? He looked pretty good last year at the games I went to see until he got injured… LOL. I saw he has only played in 6 games so far this year as well. Is that still recovery from injury or is he injured again?
Stick
5/14/2012-1:22pm at 1:22 pm (UTC -4)
pretty sure he was playing, then hurt himself again.
Bryan
5/14/2012-2:06pm at 2:06 pm (UTC -4)
He started out the season on fire (8 for 18), much like last year, and then injured himself celebrating a walk-off homer he hit. He came back less than two weeks later and re-injured himself. Hasn’t been around for at least 3 weeks. I suspect it could be a month to 6 weeks for him to get back, so we may not see him until June. Quite a shame, and a little disconcerting he injured himself in April in back to back years.