Expectations of Eleven: Jenrry Mejia

[Edgy MD]

Jenrry Manuel Mejia



Pos: sP, RP; BR-TR

Born: October 11, 1989 in in Tabara Arrisba, Dominican Republic, a year and a day after Fernando Martinez, and exactly one day before the passing of Joe Foy.

Acquired: Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent, April 4, 2007.

Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
GC Mets	GULF (Rk)	0	0		3.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.00	4	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	13		1.667	12.0	0.0	3.0	9.0	3.00
St.�Lucie	FLOR (A+)	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	1	13		0.250	2.2	0.0	0.0	15.8	inf.
Binghamton	EL (AA)	2	0	1	1.32	6	6	0	1	1	0	27.33	19	5	4	0	14	0	26	0	0	1	111		1.207	6.3	0.0	4.6	8.6	1.86
Buffalo	IL (AAA)	0	0		1.12	1	1	0	0	0	0	8.00	5	1	1	1	1	0	9	1	0	0	28		0.750	5.6	1.1	1.1	10.1	9.00
Total	Minors	2	0	1	1.28	9	9	0	1	1	0	42.33	29	7	6	1	16	0	45	1	0	2	165		1.063	6.2	0.2	3.4	9.6	2.81
NYM	NL	0	4	0	4.62	33	3	8	0	0	0	39.00	46	21	20	3	20	2	22	3	0	7	183	85	1.692	10.6	0.7	4.6	5.1	1.10
Total	All	2	4	1	2.88	42	12	8	1	1	0	81.33	75	28	26	4	36	2	67	4	0	9	348		1.365	8.3	0.4	4.0	7.4	1.86

Esposa: Nadie.

Random Made-Up Nickname: Jenrry the VIIIth-Inning Guy.

Namesakes: There can't be any.

Best Day in 2010: In the minors, there was the seven innings of one-hit ball vs. New Hampsheah. Majors? I dunno. Let's go with two shutout innings against the Cubbies, his second such stint in three days at the time.

Last Word: Terry Collins has stated his intent to see Mejia start 2011 as a starting pitcher for Buffalo. Some might take that as a dis of the previous regime, but Terry was in on last year's call for Mejia, if not necessairly known to be supportive.

What do you expect of Jenrry Mejia in 2011?

[Valadius]

Spends all year at AAA undoing the damage done to him by Jerry Manuel.

[Edgy MD]

Which you continue to insist exists despite much evidence.

The guy threw a one-hitter! Such damage!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Has such a great year in Buffalo the smartyfans campaign for him to be called up.

[Theoldmole]

One more year before he's a major contributor.

[ashie62]

Up from Buffalo as a Mets starter if and when the Mets fall out of it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A full year at Buffalo, and a good one. 3 starts for the Mets. He'll position himself to be in the Mets rotation in 2012.

[Edgy MD]

People don't have good full years at AAA anymore. If he has a good half year, he's here, unless the rotation is bloody airtight.

And that's it. Half season in Buffalo: 7-3, 3.11. Half season in Queens: 4-4, 3.92.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: People don't have good full years at AAA anymore. If he has a good half year, he's here, unless the rotation is bloody airtight. And that's it. Half season in Buffalo: 7-3, 3.11. Half season in Queens: 4-4, 3.92.

Well, he's not going to get up early, and late he's competing with Santana and the trading deadline who probably get spots before he does. Unless he's absolutely, 1.1ERA 140 Ks, murdering it in wing land.

I think he comes up after the Bisons season ends to chill with the Mets for a week after they clinch on 9/25. Throws two scoreless innings in relief with 5 Ks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Do you really think the Mets are going to win the division?

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Do you really think the Mets are going to win the division?

I will be operating under that assumption all season, yes.

I'm exaggerating with my 9/25 prediction (via a Santana shutout of the Phillies, on ESPN Sunday Night baseball btw) but I'm not ruling them out. I'm not going to make my case in the Jenrry Mejia thread however.

[Guest attgig]

truly optimistic...

he stays in AAA like grimm said before me. full season till september, and with 1 year contracts on some starters expiring, he'll be in the hunt for a rotation spot next year.

[smg58]

I'm going to go for irony here and say he spends August and September in the Mets' bullpen.

[Vic Sage]

hurts his arm on a cold night in Buffalo, and is never the same again.
next.

[Theoldmole]

Do you really think the Mets are going to win the division?

I think that every year. Starting with 1962.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: Well, he's not going to get up early, and late he's competing with Santana and the trading deadline who probably get spots before he does. Unless he's absolutely, 1.1ERA 140 Ks, murdering it in wing land. I think he comes up after the Bisons season ends to chill with the Mets for a week after they clinch on 9/25. Throws two scoreless innings in relief with 5 Ks.

Vic Sage wrote: hurts his arm on a cold night in Buffalo, and is never the same again. next.

I'm somewhere in between these two projections.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dan Warthen, kindly shut the fuck up.

"A lot of people, because of his young age, still feel that he's going to be a fairly good starter," Warthen said. "That's why baseball is so interesting. You can have differences of opinion and go on from there." Warthen's reasoning the bullpen is the likely ultimate destination? "I think Mejia works really hard to throw the baseball," the pitching coach said. "And I worry about the volume of pitches during the course of a year. You get 30 to 35 starts, and you're throwing 100 pitches each time, every fifth day, I worry. ... You just watch his arm swing. It's a long arm swing. His ball naturally cuts -- again, [like] a Mariano Rivera. If Mariano had to go out there and throw 100 pitches every fifth day, when a ball cuts all the time, instead of staying behind it, I think you find a lot of torque on your elbow and your shoulder. But, again, that's a singular opinion. [Mejia] is a very strong individual."

Even if it's just one guy spouting off, or-- and I'm REALLY trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here-- decrease expectations... why the hell say this to Adam F. Rubin? If you're going to be candid about something like this... why not be candid with, say, management, and not with the guy whose job it is to write highly-public, highly-searchable blog items and articles about what you say? How doesn't this get thrown back in the face of Alderson when/if Mejia's name comes up in any trade-related conversation? ("Well, your guy says...")

[Edgy MD]

I think we get locked into initial notions. Melvin Mora arrives on the Mets and Bobby Valentine uses him as a defensive sub outfielder, fans can't get their head around him being a shortstop. Jerry Manuel has a gap in the outfield and the GM sends him Daniel Murphy from AA, and he can't conceive of the idea that any failures out there are due in part because he's spent his whole career as a corner infielder and should be perhaps tried there when there's an opening. A spends half a year in the bullpen on your staff, and you try and come up with reasons he belonged there all along.

An actor puts on superhero tights on in a movie and you can't accept him as rennassance painter or dustbowl farmer or gay cowboy.

Our minds organize information in categories. It's probably a benefiical trait... most of the time.

[Ceetar]

Or..Warthen was a big part of what got Meija into the pen to begin with last year.

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: Or..Warthen was a big part of what got Meija into the pen to begin with last year.

I'm hoping this isn't the same kind of self-fulfilling prophesy (I told you he's a reliever, dammit! so that's where I'm going to put him.) that sent Terry Leach back to the bullpen after he had proven that he could be an effective starter.
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[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Warthen may well believe he's unsackable. The state of pitching gradually deteriorated into an injury-riddled mess on his watch. One good season of Pelfrey may be a small feather in his cap, but not much else. (And before you answer "Dickey" ask yourself how much coaching you can give to a 36yo knuckler?)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I don't think he's bulletproof, or thinks he is. I think Warthen's a well-meaning guy who knows more than the average human (on earth) about effective major-league pitching, and I think he's something like a situational moron in terms of the New York media and candor.

[Edgy MD]

The Second Spitter wrote: (And before you answer "Dickey" ask yourself how much coaching you can give to a 36yo knuckler?)

Niese. Parnell. Gee. Pelfrey. Takahashi. Dessens.

The Mets have had some good pitching despite the adveristy that they've faced, and Warthan has earned his seat.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Perpetual Pedro.

[Lefty Specialist]

Jenrry has a good year in Buffalo and stays there the whole season. He's set up for the rotation in 2012.

[Fman99]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Jenrry has a good year in Buffalo and stays there the whole season. He's set up for the rotation in 2012.

I'm totally good with this.