Merandy Gonazalez

[Edgy MD]

Merandy Gonazlez pitches with the Gulf Coast Mets. He's 19 years old, has 30 career games under his belt, and I can't even find a picture of him online. But he just pitched a seven-inning no-hitter.

Walked one and struck out six. The G-Mets made two errors behind him, which implies he pitched well enough to stretch his effectiveness at least 2/3 of an inning further. In fact, the last time he faced the GCL Marlins (the Guppies?) back on June 22, he threw five hitless innings. So I think it's safe to say that somebody has somebody else's number. That's 12 innings of no-hit, one walk, 13 strikeout ball between the two starts.

Merandy. Make a note.

[Guest d'Kong76]

And he's not adopted! The race to the AaPF is on!

[Edgy MD]

Heck, I'll just bounce this baby to the AaPF, and he's all mine.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I applied and was immediately rejected... something about an
outstanding warrant in Boston from the early 80's...

[Edgy MD]

Hi, I'm Merandy Gonzalez. How many games have I appeared in this season for the Columbia Fireflies? Three.

How many wins do I have? Three.

How many innings have I pitched? 20 and 2/3.

How many runzzz have I allowed? Zero. What's a run?

How many dudes have I struck out? Eighteen. Alice Cooper sings about the number of dudes I've struck out. That's how many.

And how many have I walked? One.

Combine that with 10 hits allowed, and no hit batsmen, and I'm walking around the Sally League with a 0.532 WHIP.

What's a Tebow? Are you serious? There's some guy named "Tebow" on my team? Never heard of him.

[Edgy MD]

No pitcher has been more dominant than Class A Columbia's Merandy Gonzalez to begin the season. That trend continued on Friday night, as the Mets' No. 14 prospect extended his scoreless innings streak to 20 2/3 by tossing seven frames in a win against Lexington.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/225794220/mets-merandy-gonzalez-extends-scoreless-streak/

[Edgy MD]

Merandy kills it again, pitching 7 2/3 scoreless in a 5-0 win over the Asheville Tourists. He's now 4-0 and he is THE MAN WITHOUT AN ERA!

Sixth shoutout of the year for the Fireflies.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Damn, son. Get it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You know what we haven't seen in this forum for a long time? The phrase "Bring him up now. He can't be any worse that what we already have."

I don't think that's true, of course, but it used to be a common refrain.

[Edgy MD]

One of two 4-0 pitchers for the Fireflies. Someone adopt Jordan Humphreys NOW!!!!

[Edgy MD]

Threw six innings of shutout ball tonight, giving up but three hits and a single walk, while striking out five. He advances his record to a record 8-1, with a 1.56 ERA. You may look shocked.

[Edgy MD]

Merandy, along with his unadopted brother Jordan Humphreys, gets promoted from Columbia to St. Lucie. I don't expect he'll ever be back.

His first half numbers: 8-1, 1.55 ERA in 69 2/3 innings with 13 walks and 65 strikeouts. That's some baseball.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I guess, if things go well, we'll see him in 2020. Maybe even 2019.

[Edgy MD]

Merandy is totally this year's P.J. Conlon. After seven scoreless his last time out, he's doing the unthinkable, actually improving on his 8-1/1.55 performanc in his first half with Columbia, going 4-1/1.52 so far with St. Lucie. Only four homers in 99 innings. Yeah, it's A-Ball, but that combines with low walk rates and opponent batting averages too, and it tracks across his career.

His 1.54 combined ERA is second in all full-season affiliated baseball, behind only Phillies prospect Ranger Suarez, currently rocking an NCAA Softball-esque 1.42 ERA also between the South Atlantic League and the Florida State League.

[Edgy MD]

Merandy putting up a 0.98 ERA over his first 18.1 innings in the Miami system. His 11 strikeouts and five walks won't knock you out, but, well, there's no bad way to a 0.98 ERA.

[Edgy MD]

Merandy gets promoted to the bigs by the Marlins, making him the first-ever Columbia Firefly to reach the majors.

This is your benchmark, A.J. Ramos. Outpitch Merandy.