Most guys in AAA are busy polishing thier secondary pitches. If Wheeler doesn’t need any polish there I suggest they spend the time he has in AAA to teach him more advanced lessons like how to set up batters and pitch selection.

Plus, pitchers have a limited # of innings in their arm. No need to waste any in the minors!

The bullpen sucks – if fact they are worse than we thought they would be. One of the supposed bright spots on acquisitions in the off season was with the bullpen. Their era is baseball’s worst.

The Mets have a couple of hitters that are dragging down the entire team. Start with Ike and end with Bay. Both are hurting the team right now. We had five players who batted yesterday hitting under .200 and one player at the lofty .205.

Not being discussed is what that fumbled double play ball (that would have ended the game against the Nats and put the Mets into first place) took out of this team. I reckon it was a punch to the solar plex and they still have not recovered.

So to speak about bringing up Wheeler – having him leapfrog over AAA – is a distraction.

Let him pitch in AAA. We have the time. He needs the experience. If one of our starters goes down – or pitches himself out of the rotation, then we have this discussion.

This team is not going anywhere this year. Admittedly, they are fun to watch but they are not an elite team and will not make the playoffs.

P.S.: Dick Surhoff is the father of B.J. Surhoff, who played 17 years in the majors at Milwaukee, Baltimore and Atlanta.

Then if he is blowing people away yes it’s worth it to not waste that pitching on dveloping what seems to be developed already and then you can give him a start at the MLB level.

So promote him to AAA and if that knocks a starter out of the rotation there well so be it he isn’t going to be a starter up here anyway might as well start seeing if they can be an effective Reliever cause thats what they are most likely to do if they get to the big leagues anyway!

But put him at AAA to make sure he is done developing first.

I’m leaning more to this view point on the matter.

“Each week, ESPN senior baseball editor Matt Meyers and Mets blogger Mark Simon convene to discuss the upcoming week for the Mets.”

Yeah what are they smoking before the “discussion” begins? Someone mentioned Pelfrey above. That’s a great example of how you can stunt a pitcher’s growth by rushing him. They did exactly the same thing to Phil Humber too.

The present administration is ultra-conservative in the way they run the ball club. They don’t spend money. They cut development programs like the GCL Mets. They rarely rush prospects, as the minor league promotions this year have been hard-earned by the players who have moved up during the first half.

I see no chance of the conservative philosophies employed by the current Mets regime being thrown out the window, and watching them have Wheeler skip AAA to join a team that’s over-achieving while playing .500 ball. Those guys at ESPM must be having a lot of trouble finding real things to write about these days. Either that or they are trying to attract readers by hyping and dramatizing stories that really aren’t even stories.

But I sure wouldn’t jump him from AA to MLB without a few games to see if he can handle it!

Wheeler may be promoted to AAA soon enough if he continues to pitch the way he has of late. Then it is a matter of seeing how he handles AAA and a possible September call up.