Zack Wheeler Fans Seven; Hurls Six Scoreless For St. Lucie

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• steve August 8, 2011 at 5:47 am

  Great to see. Hopefully he pitches close to this the rest of the way and gets a couple of AA starts? He should be starting in AA next year beside Harvey and Gorski.
  • t agee August 8, 2011 at 7:40 am

    Tranin’ Wheeler ‘aint gonna do Jack because DePo don’t know jack. OmarFan says his ranking at Baseball America is “spooky.” That’s good enough for me.

    We should have just traded him for the Animal. Got Chris Carter back here. That guy’s worth TWO #1 draft choices. Beltran was just a 2+ month rental. Hard to get a true high ceiling top shelf prospect like Chris Carter for a 2 month rental.

    Besides you can never have enough 1B/LF/DH types in this organization. The Animal would have given us another one…….just in case.
    • Bundy August 8, 2011 at 7:44 am

      I love Monday morning sarcasm……………
    • Met Maniac August 8, 2011 at 8:24 am

      There goes agee bright and early with his Omar-bashing right on cue as I predicted yesterday. I love it when I’m right. Unprovoked I might add and only intended to ruin a good post. Pure hatred at it’s worst. I’m starting to wonder if this hatred of Omar Minaya goes beyond baseball just based on the overwhelming magnitude and daily frequency of his lynching.
      • t agee August 8, 2011 at 8:52 am

        And as I predicted there would be no mention of Wheeler by Maniac after a good start out of pure hatred for Alderson.

        And with hardly a track record of any kind to run on it makes it even that much more curious why there would be comments by Maniac only when there is a negative one and never a positive for the new administration.

        At least I have pointed out, frequently, the good that Minaya has done and the organizational hurdles put in his way. Maniac points out only what he suspects will turn out badly and bashes Alderson every chance he gets.

        Maniac even went so far as to credit Minaya for drafting Lenny DiNardo “who is still in the Majors.” while discrediting Depodesta for drafting Either because “he was traded before he made it out of the minors.”

        I’m sure Maniac would far and away prefer DiNardo to Either on his favorite baseball team 100 times out of 100.

        Alderson did nothing to help this team this off season. Well compared to Minaya those are big shoes to follow.

        In the last two years Omar’s off seasons included Redding, Livan, Putz, Perez and Bay. That’s a hard standard to live up to.
        • Met Maniac August 8, 2011 at 9:10 am

          Excuse me? I said this was a good post in my comment. I thought you went out of your way to turn Wheelers solid performace into a mud slinging contest. I liked you better when you were objective and didnt resort to name calling and insults to make your points. I wish you backed up your arguments with facts rather than snark and intimidation which only means your points lack the power to stand on their own.

          Stop putting words into mine and everyone elses mouths just because we dont agree with you.

          This lunatic fringe you belong to is getting out of hand.

          Cant you just be a good Mets fan and avoid hating on Minaya for at least 24 hours? I’m sure everyone on MMO would agree we could use the break. As I’ve said repeatedly over the years, Minaya was a terrible GM, we all get that. No need for you to make overkill out of it.
      • Bundy August 8, 2011 at 12:21 pm

        I find it funny when you talk about this man’s hatred, yet you and your “friends” are killing Alderson that doesn’t have a year here (HERE not anywhere else)

        You making Hippocratic statements, but what else is new? You’re the one hoping the team loses 275 games while he’s here -what a fan you are.

        Yes, people read the shoutbox even if they don’t add to the garbage spewed in there.
• alex68 August 8, 2011 at 9:43 am

  2014 he we come!!!!!!!!!!!
• jessep August 8, 2011 at 10:22 am

  Thanks for the update. I think with Wheeler, Mets fans need to do the following:

  A) Realize a pitcher is in A ball because he has work to do. This works for both people who think he is the next Cy Young and people who are begging for ways to be critical of the trade

  B) Watch his control as Craig mentioned but also his Homeruns Allowed. We know (or we should) that Wheeler can strike batters out, as long as he keeps the pace up then I am happy. His control and homeruns allowed will dictate how ready to become a big league pitcher he is.

  You can’t really tell a lot (in my opinion) about a pitcher while in A Ball. AA is the true test. This is why the hype machine on Matt Harvey has started to pump the brakes a ltitle bit. Doesn’t mean Harvey isn’t a solid prospect, it just means he is struggling in AA and that is a big test.
  • alex68 August 8, 2011 at 10:28 am

    so, let me get this straight, we go googooogaga, for a guy in single A with a 3.90 ERA and 1 win, yet, we need to pump the brake on harvey a little bit because he’s struggling in Double A, a year AFTER HE DOMINATED SINGLE A!???
    consistancy or either you’re trying to somehow give this front office too much credit, i know you LOVE depodesta and co, but be consistent in your comments, is ok to love wheeler but to DOGGED harvey is unfair.. guess what, harvey will be here first than wheeler and probably will be way better.. also, familia is a guy who has ACE stuff ok.. stop salivating about a guy who hasn’t yet DOMINATED the way harvey and familia have ok..
    • jessep August 8, 2011 at 12:41 pm

      How come last year Familia’s ERA in St. Lucie was a 5.58? How come you don’t care about what his ERA was but you care about Wheeler’s? After all, Familia has ace stuff as you say
  • Donal August 8, 2011 at 10:55 am

    Harvey just had some bad luck mixed with a small sample size. When he first got to Binghamton, his BABIP ballooned to over .400. He’s still at about .380, but it is coming down.
    • alex68 August 8, 2011 at 11:02 am

      his what went down????? another saber metric crap to try and measure a pitcher??? that is why i loved what maniac wrote the other day.. babip.. who gives a damn.. he’s good, not good, high or low ERA, whip, that’s it!!!!!!
      • Donal August 8, 2011 at 11:28 am

        Those of us that want to learn more give a damn. Maybe if we had done a better job embracing peripheral stats and understanding sample sizes, we’d have had Heath Bell closing for us all these years.

        If you admit you don’t know what something is and yet feel the need to bash it, it says worse things about you than what you want to bash.
        • alex68 August 8, 2011 at 11:31 am

          heath bell f*ing sucked for us.. just like izzy when we had him, just like jeff kent!!!! some ppl exceed some place else, here in NY the pressure is different.. trust me, i spoke to some players back in DR that have told me personally, how is different to play in NY.. ask billy wagner, who was choking in houston and philly and noone was noticing, got here, choke, the pressure mounts!!!!!!!
          • Donal August 8, 2011 at 11:46 am

            Bell was a victim of small samples and bad luck. His peripheral stats were fine. Kent did just fine here as well. Not as well as in SF, but he didn’t suck.

            Seriously, stop. You don’t know what you are saying.