Farmer Ted

That's my Johns Hopkins learning, sidearm heaving, rec spec wearing future hall of famer. Slow and steady wins the race. https://metsminors.net/a-chat-with-mets-reliever-josh-hejka/

Little guy still getting innings after all these years. Spot relief in Brooklyn this season. We've all had spot relief in Brooklyn at some point. Got a taste of upstate with Bingo to Syracuse in 2022 but threw the limb out resulting in TJ surgery. Make the comeback kid!

[inhales deeply, exhales] yeah, the fresh smell of the loge level sausage cart. This IS the place. Yeah, I might stay a bit. Happy belated, Lunchbucket.

[opens door slowly] Holy Choo Choo Coleman, this place still lives! Do I need to pay back dues or will an evening for the admins at the Landing Strip suffice?

Where's Paulie? Let's Go Cheetos! (gratuitous shoutout to the Buckets)

Thanks for finding me, KC. Happy to be back and tending to the fine grass at Citi Field.

Someone, somewhere has access to the archives when we were throwing out names two years ago. I'm pretty sure WALLY FREAKING BACKMAN was on that list. Who else was the next so-called savior before Mickey got the blessing of Fred?

Screw all those has-beens and going-nowheres. We need some new blood and I'm all in on Richard "Stubby" Clapp, currently first base coach for the Cards. 2017 Minor League Manager of the Year with Memphis.

Edgardo Alfonzo, please. Where's the "other" button?

Little guy was a monster with his sidearmed stuff this season. 2-0, 4 for 4 in save opps. 1.33 ERA 1.08 WHIP 20.1 IP 24 K, 5 BB .210 opposing ACG Little Josh is moving up to Bingo next year, for sure.

Junior got his first MiLB win the other day in relief for the Clones. 13Ks in 10.2 innings this season. ERA of 0.00. He's the most awesome-est ever!!

The little guy was sent down for a little more seasoning. What a classy write-up! Kingsport 5, Burlington 4 Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, features one of the top medical schools in the country. Kingsport Mets pitcher Josh Hejka went there and maybe that’s why he works with the precision of a surgeon on the mound. Hejka pitched a scoreless ninth inning to notch his third save as the Mets eked out a win over the Burlington Royals Hejka has yet to allow an earned run in 8 1/3 innings pitched for Kingsport and also logged 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the Brooklyn Cyclones of the short-season advanced New York-Penn League.

And my boy gets the call-up to the 'Clones. Go root him on! ">

Keep your hands off my DIII standout from Johns Hopkins, Josh Hejka. That's correct, it's Johns. Not John. He's a native Michigander and looks like a 12-year old Chris Sabo on the mound. So far, 1.1 innings pitched this season in Appy League Kingsport with 2 Ks and 1 BB. He's got a chance! I'd like to see you square up on this action ">

I haven't had the pleasure of viewing a game in Kingsport, but I did stop at the field during a food break traveling down I-81 one spring. Metal bleachers for about 1,000 and a four-person press box. Pretty much what you'd expect tucked behind a Wal-Mart, Lowe's and Sonic. A friend is a scout in the A's organization and he calls it the Weeder League; if they can't weed you out of the system at this level, you might have a chance. I'm all in on the side-armed throwing, rec-spec wearing Josh Hejka.