After learning that he will make one more minor-league rehab start with Double-A Binghamton on Wednesday, an exasperated and frustrated Dillon Gee told reporters that the Mets have him “wasting bullets.”
Initially expected to rejoin the rotation this week, and after tossing 6.1 scoreless innings for St. Lucie on Thursday, the Mets unexpectedly squashed that plan and told Gee he will start against the San Diego Padres on June 2 instead.
“This has been the weirdest damn year in baseball I’ve ever had,” Gee said before Sunday’s game. “It’s the weirdest ever.”
It has been a grind for Gee who was the subject of trade rumors all offseason, then was told he was being dispatched to the bullpen in Spring Training, he was then back in the rotation when Zack Wheeler went down, and now learns about this six-man rotation plan while being told to hop on a plane to Binghamton after just arriving from St. Lucie with a layover in Detroit where they lost his luggage.
I guess I’d be pissed off too if that were me. It sounds like the Mets now have two ticked-off veterans in their rotation. Matt Harvey is a veteran, right? We’ve yet to hear from Jon Niese.
Terry Collins admitted that more than one pitcher was unhappy when he unveiled his six-man roation to them on Saturday. “It wasn’t just Matt,” Collins said. “If I can help it, I didn’t want to do it to anybody.”
Harvey was also perturbed that he first learned of the manager’s decision on Twitter and not from Collins.
