Jenrry Mejia Solid In His First Game Back

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• jessep May 9, 2012 at 10:30 am

  My view of Mejia is not that he could just be a middle reliever. I look at him as having the kind of stuff you look for in a closer.

  Ideally yes I’d like him to be in the rotation but I’m not sure that will be his fate.
  • trs86 May 9, 2012 at 10:51 am

    I think it’s just too early to tell. He has a nice assortment of pitches it’s just the durability really that is in question. I think you have to see if he can stick first.
• Donal May 9, 2012 at 10:31 am

  That would be cool to see Mejia before the All Star Break. I hope he does well.
• Original Mets Fan May 9, 2012 at 11:15 am

  Just like the Mets, always putting the cart in front of the horse. Can we first wait and see if could get through his first rehab intact?
  • stick May 9, 2012 at 11:23 am

    isn’t a “high ranking team official” just another name for “unnamed source I met in a parking garage”, and quite often “something I just made up”?

    I highly doubt this snippet means that the met FO is actually basing everything around Mejia not only being ready in a couple of weeks (a stretch to start with), but somehow being ready to join the rotation in the majors? He wasn’t ready for that before he got hurt!
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    Now if they mean that after memorial day he could be ready to rejoin the AA or AAA rotation to keep working on getting developed, that is fine. But thinking he can be in the met rotation, healthy and productive, by June? fantasy.

    if it comes true (and wishful thinking being the basis of the unnamed quote), fantastic. But not something that anyone who’s job it was to make these decisions would count on.

    so based on all that, the “source” had to be Jeffy!
    • trs86 May 9, 2012 at 11:28 am

      True and it never even says start where?
    • Metsie May 9, 2012 at 11:53 am

      Actually no…

      Here is pretty mch the pecking order on jornalistic sources…

      Rumor – No one of any substance or in the know, merely talk going arond the league

      Source – Someone who has no direct connection to a club source, but in a position to have heard or had conversations with someone who does or works in a position where this knowledge could be taken from (i.e. An Asst GM from some other team who has not had direct discussions with a Met GM but had conversations with someone who has)

      Club Source – Someone who works with the club but may or may not be a decision maker. Information they have may be second hand, overheard or deduced from activity he has witnessed.

      High Ranking Official – This would never be used unless said by a decision maker with the team they are referring to.

      Now those are used for the most part but somtimes a HRO will be called a Club Source or merely cited as a SOURCE in cases where the information is something that is meant as a leak or is something that could get them in trouble if said and attributed by them.

      And in the cases of Club and HRO there are usually two main reasons for the leak, with a third in cases where the info leaked is not all that important in the first place.
      1 – They want to get a story in the press for strategic purposes
      2 – They lost an argment in a meeting and wish to get their argument out there to keep their opinion alive
      3 – But in many cases the information is given on Background to fill out the info on a bigger story that is in the news or was given in a manner that was off the record but was allowed to be used provided no Quote was attributed.

      Only if a direct quote is used and cited (i.e. Sandy Alderson said “blah blah blah”) is the information both word for word and directly cites the sorce of the quote.

      Any paraphrasing will be made without the use of Quotation despite citing the source by name.

      So if someone says a “High Level Club Source” as the source of information you can bet it was someone who is trly in the mix, has some influence or control over decision making and is considered the most credible source you can find regarding a baseball organization and thier thinking.

      I hope that clears things up for some of you who have issues with sources and how they are cited in the press.
  • trs86 May 9, 2012 at 11:24 am

    How are the Mets jumping the gun? They are saying he MAY make a start before long… he MAY not. LOL.
    • Metsie May 9, 2012 at 11:58 am

      Only thing I took from what was said is that Mejia may be ready to get a start before Young does and if Batista falls flat (he won but was hardly impressive in doing it) they might give Mejia one of the starts if he is ready and Young is not.

      Neither are ready at this point so I don’t see any thing big to discuss yet.

      Maybe they had some hallway conversation that Mejia could become the long reliever/spot starter if Bautista turns up lemons…
      Much ado bout nothin at this point! Bautista won last night!
      • trs86 May 9, 2012 at 12:02 pm

        Thing is I don’t even see it as that. They are basically saying don’t forget about Mejia and he may be ready to start soon. Might not.
        • Metsie May 9, 2012 at 12:17 pm

          In either case it’s not like mejia is going to break into the rotation, a spot start at best ntil Young is ready to pitch.

          It makes sense to use Young when he is ready if you can because he might turn into a tradeable commodity. He is going to watch too much to extend him so the only way to get something for taking the risk of paying him to rehab is for the purpose of trading him if you ask me.

          Mejia may get a start but as soon as Young is ready he is going to get the ball!
          • trs86 May 10, 2012 at 9:08 am

            True, but I guess you can’t force nature so if Mejia is ready first then he will be here as you said for a complementary start or two. I would not be surprised to see them put him in the rotation for a few then in the pen as a long man as well.
• Tommy2cat May 9, 2012 at 2:49 pm

  Well, it’s really good news that Mejia and Young are entering the game phase of their rehab process. With Harvey and Wheeler wheelin’ & dealin’ in AAA and AA, respectively, (Yeah, a Clyde-ism), we finally have reasons to be cheerful (Yeah, Ian Dury & the Blockheads).

  So…EVERYONE STOP COMPLAINING. WE JUST TOOK THE FIRST TWO GAMES FROM PHILLY AND WE’RE 17-13 AND 1 1/2 GAMES OUT OF FIRST PLACE…IN MAY!!!!

  2-CAT
  • Richard May 10, 2012 at 9:05 am

    You tell’em Tommy !

    Let’s go Mets !!
• Mr North Jersey May 9, 2012 at 4:55 pm

  Nice to see Mejia finally back on the mound.
• NickDanger May 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm

  My 10 yr old was at this game on a class trip, when I was a kid,it was always museums or Radio City, why couldn’t it have been SHEA!