Duda and Mejia

[Guest Edgy DC]

Both called up, as per Andy Tracksuit.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Then he stuck his finger in his ear.

[MFS62]

Confirmed on the post-game radio show.

Later

[Zvon]

I'd much rather see the game in HD and Andy in squiggly lines.

[ashie62]

Duda in RF for September?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good point.

Duda, meanwhile is up here defending his 2010 organizational home run crown.

Player	Total	Mets	Bisons	B-Mets	St.Mets	Sand Gnats	Cyclones	K-Mets	G-Mets
Duda	23		17	6
Evans	23		6	17
Bowman	22			22
Wright	21	21
Ratliff	21			16	5
Hessman	19	1	18
Maldonado	19			12	7
Lutz	18			17					1
Davis	17	15	2
Nieuwenhuis	17		1	16
Jacobs	16	1	15
Pascucci	16		16
Barajas	13	12							1
Martinez	12		12
Francoeur	11	11
Satin	11			6	5
Lucas	11				11
Flores	11				4	7
Pagan	10	10
Turner	10		10

Call up Evans! Make it a fair fight!

[G-Fafif]

Thread title puts me in mind of Creeque Alley by the Mamas & Papas.

Duda and Mejia
Neither may be Seaver
But that's what they'll be aimin' at
And no one else is new
But Arias

[Centerfield]

So Mejia looks like he will be the starter Saturday, pending a bullpen session.

I wonder when the philosophy shifted so that one good AAA start is enough to warrant a callup to the bigs.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm sure there's more feeding into it than that. There were six dominant AA starts, his success as a big-league reliever earlier in the year, plus the mid-season DL assignment having kept him from getting the reps they were hoping for in the second half of the season. He's only logged 69 innings (at five levels!) this season.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Centerfield wrote: So Mejia looks like he will be the starter Saturday, pending a bullpen session. I wonder when the philosophy shifted so that one good AAA start is enough to warrant a callup to the bigs.

Get him while he's hot.

As Edgy said, he dominated AA for a few weeks beforehand, too. And the way he's been dominating, with command on the fastball and supposedly a much much improved curveball, is the way you can succeed at any level.

[MFS62]

Uh, Edgy, did you copy and update a prior chart?
Bowman wasn't in the Mets organization this year.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=bowman001sha

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bad coding put his statistics in with the B-Mets stats. I copied.

Why do people start corrections with "uh" and "um"?

[Vic Sage]

I saw Duda play in Buffalo last week. He looked pathetic against AAAA LHer Rich Hill's good curve ball. Maybe it was just an off night, or maybe the guy hasn't yet learned to hit LHers or good breaking stuff. I don't see the point of force-feeding him a diet of major league pitching quite yet.

[Met Hunter]

Hopefully they get him name right on his uni. Hate to see the guy come out with this on his back: A DUD.

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: Bad coding put his statistics in with the B-Mets stats. I copied. Why do people start corrections with "uh" and "um"?

Um, I don't know.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's September, with the minor leagues ending, and I imagine Duda is getting a taste, more than a tryout. Jerry will probably protect him from lefties. Not that I've come to trust Jerry suddenly, but this seems pretty run of the mill.

When the season ends, I guess maybe Turner and Adams get a looksee as potential utility infielders for 2011. Maybe a catcher like Nickeas as well.

[MFS62]

I expect to see Green, since his minor leage rehab peroid is over.
And, Dillon Gee might get called up. You may have missed this, but earlier this year he set a modern day Buffalo record for most strikeouts in a season. The hitters have been missing a lot of his pitches, but connecting on a lot of them, too. His ERA is around 4.50, so I'm not sure if we'll see him as a starter.
Dillon Gee: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=gee---001dil

Later

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Vic Sage wrote: I saw Duda play in Buffalo last week. He looked pathetic against AAAA LHer Rich Hill's good curve ball. Maybe it was just an off night, or maybe the guy hasn't yet learned to hit LHers or good breaking stuff. I don't see the point of force-feeding him a diet of major league pitching quite yet.

Without a doubt he's a step behind on hitting lefties. Cumulitive splits for the year. That huge ground ball rate would probably indicate that he still can't really ID lefty breaking balls and is rolling over them. But those results against righties are tasty. The Equivalency Calculator they have equates his AA/AAA figures to a .281/.355/.502 line versus National League RHPs. May as well let him face the real thing, gain some experience and hopefully confidence in a platoon scenario, while letting him work on his approach against lefties with the big league coaches and during the winter and spring. Even if he fails in that regard, a guy who can mash righties is pretty valuable as long as he's used correctly.

I'd really love to see a Duda/Evans platoon in left the rest of the way out. They're like mirror images of each other.

[MFS62]

Another name on the list, Zach Lutz, has been promoted to Buffalo to replace Duda.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As I said somewhere else (adopt-a-prospect?), I hope that this isn't considered a Mejia audition for a "scholarship" to next year's major-league rotation*. He's never dominated/been solid over the course of a full year.

I'd like to see him continue to work the hell out of those breaking pitches/kick AAA ass for the lion's share of next year.

*Although, gun-to-head, I'd bet that's what the FO is thinking.