Look, nobody knows what Zack Wheeler’s major league career will be. He could flop, get injured, manage to find stardom immediately, or gradually. But that Wheeler is here already is a victory. This isn’t some premature promotion by the Mets, a Ruben Tejada or Carlos Gomez up too soon to… Read More →
So what’s the hurry, getting Zack Wheeler up to New York? Such a question would have sounded ridiculous just a couple of weeks ago. But after Dillon Gee’s performance last night, there’s no obvious answer for who should head to the bullpen when Wheeler is brought up from Triple-A Las… Read More →
Thursday night, pitching phenom Kevin Gausman made his major league debut for the Baltimore Orioles. The future is bright for Gausman, who throws a plus-plus fastball, mixes his secondary pitches well, and was rated the 26th-best prospect in baseball, per Baseball America, entering the season. His performance since those ratings… Read More →
It’s rhetorical; I would trade practically anything for him. So would the Mets. So would any team with a basic understanding of value. So the debate on Twitter over the Daily News piece this morning speculating that the Mets would give up Zack Wheeler and Travis d’Arnaud in a deal… Read More →
As usual, we all awoke this morning to news that the Mets had signed a major league free agent. And by “as usual”, of course, I mean “for the first time all winter”. Still, the acquisition of Shaun Marcum on a one-year deal is a good one. Marcum, with a… Read More →
I am inordinately excited every late-winter when my John Sickels prospect book arrives in the mail. It’s an event at our house, in the sense that my wife makes fun of me for getting excited about the book, then falls asleep while I stay up through the night reading it…. Read More →
Well, if media reports are true, Sandy Alderson is back from his pillaging, and the treasure chest contains… Zack Wheeler. As Beltran Booty goes, this will do nicely. (Tomorrow, we’ll tackle what it means for the 2011 Mets.) Wheeler was the sixth overall pick in the 2009 draft. He’s currently… Read More →