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Duda and Mejia

Edgy DC Aug 31 2010 08:55 PM

Both called up, as per Andy Tracksuit.

Edgy DC Aug 31 2010 09:08 PM Re: Duda and Mejia

Then he stuck his finger in his ear.

MFS62 Aug 31 2010 09:31 PM Re: Duda and Mejia

Confirmed on the post-game radio show. Later

Zvon Aug 31 2010 09:36 PM Re: Duda and Mejia

I'd much rather see the game in HD and Andy in squiggly lines.

Ashie62 Aug 31 2010 09:51 PM Re: Duda and Mejia

Duda in RF for September?

Edgy DC Aug 31 2010 09:53 PM Re: Duda and Mejia

Good point. Duda, meanwhile is up here defending his 2010 organizational home run crown. Player Total Mets Bisons B-Mets St.Mets Sand Gnats Cyclones K-Mets G-Mets Duda 23 17 6 Evans 23 6 17 Bowman 22 22 Wright 21 21 Ratliff 21 16 5 Hessman 19 1 18 Maldonado 19 12 7 Lutz 18 17 1 Davis 17 15 2 Nieuwenhuis 17 1 16 Jacobs 16 1 15 Pascucci 16 16 Barajas 13 12 1 Martinez 12 12 Francoeur 11 11 Satin 11 6 5 Lucas 11 11 Flores 11 4 7 Pagan 10 10 Turner 10 10 Call up Evans! Make it a fair fight!

G-Fafif Aug 31 2010 10:50 PM Re: Duda and Mejia

Thread title puts me in mind of Creeque Alley by the Mamas & Papas. Duda and Mejia Neither may be Seaver But that's what they'll be aimin' at And no one else is new But Arias

Centerfield Sep 01 2010 07:22 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

So Mejia looks like he will be the starter Saturday, pending a bullpen session. I wonder when the philosophy shifted so that one good AAA start is enough to warrant a callup to the bigs.

Edgy DC Sep 01 2010 07:32 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

I'm sure there's more feeding into it than that. There were six dominant AA starts, his success as a big-league reliever earlier in the year, plus the mid-season DL assignment having kept him from getting the reps they were hoping for in the second half of the season. He's only logged 69 innings (at five levels!) this season.

OlerudOwned Sep 01 2010 07:45 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Centerfield wrote: So Mejia looks like he will be the starter Saturday, pending a bullpen session. I wonder when the philosophy shifted so that one good AAA start is enough to warrant a callup to the bigs. Get him while he's hot. As Edgy said, he dominated AA for a few weeks beforehand, too. And the way he's been dominating, with command on the fastball and supposedly a much much improved curveball, is the way you can succeed at any level.

MFS62 Sep 01 2010 08:42 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Uh, Edgy, did you copy and update a prior chart? Bowman wasn't in the Mets organization this year. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minor ... wman001sha Later

Edgy DC Sep 01 2010 08:46 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Bad coding put his statistics in with the B-Mets stats. I copied. Why do people start corrections with "uh" and "um"?

Vic Sage Sep 01 2010 09:01 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

I saw Duda play in Buffalo last week. He looked pathetic against AAAA LHer Rich Hill's good curve ball. Maybe it was just an off night, or maybe the guy hasn't yet learned to hit LHers or good breaking stuff. I don't see the point of force-feeding him a diet of major league pitching quite yet.

Met Hunter Sep 01 2010 09:08 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Hopefully they get him name right on his uni. Hate to see the guy come out with this on his back: A DUD.

MFS62 Sep 01 2010 09:35 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Edgy DC wrote: Bad coding put his statistics in with the B-Mets stats. I copied. Why do people start corrections with "uh" and "um"? Um, I don't know. Later

Edgy DC Sep 01 2010 09:47 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

It's September, with the minor leagues ending, and I imagine Duda is getting a taste, more than a tryout. Jerry will probably protect him from lefties. Not that I've come to trust Jerry suddenly, but this seems pretty run of the mill. When the season ends, I guess maybe Turner and Adams get a looksee as potential utility infielders for 2011. Maybe a catcher like Nickeas as well.

MFS62 Sep 01 2010 09:52 AM Re: Duda and Mejia Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 01 2010 10:23 AM

I expect to see Green, since his minor leage rehab peroid is over. And, Dillon Gee might get called up. You may have missed this, but earlier this year he set a modern day Buffalo record for most strikeouts in a season. The hitters have been missing a lot of his pitches, but connecting on a lot of them, too. His ERA is around 4.50, so I'm not sure if we'll see him as a starter. Dillon Gee: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minor ... e---001dil Later

OlerudOwned Sep 01 2010 10:02 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Vic Sage wrote: I saw Duda play in Buffalo last week. He looked pathetic against AAAA LHer Rich Hill's good curve ball. Maybe it was just an off night, or maybe the guy hasn't yet learned to hit LHers or good breaking stuff. I don't see the point of force-feeding him a diet of major league pitching quite yet. Without a doubt he's a step behind on hitting lefties. Cumulitive splits for the year. That huge ground ball rate would probably indicate that he still can't really ID lefty breaking balls and is rolling over them. But those results against righties are tasty. The Equivalency Calculator they have equates his AA/AAA figures to a .281/.355/.502 line versus National League RHPs. May as well let him face the real thing, gain some experience and hopefully confidence in a platoon scenario, while letting him work on his approach against lefties with the big league coaches and during the winter and spring. Even if he fails in that regard, a guy who can mash righties is pretty valuable as long as he's used correctly. I'd really love to see a Duda/Evans platoon in left the rest of the way out. They're like mirror images of each other.

MFS62 Sep 01 2010 10:18 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

Another name on the list, Zach Lutz, has been promoted to Buffalo to replace Duda. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 01 2010 10:40 AM Re: Duda and Mejia

As I said somewhere else (adopt-a-prospect?), I hope that this isn't considered a Mejia audition for a "scholarship" to next year's major-league rotation*. He's never dominated/been solid over the course of a full year. I'd like to see him continue to work the hell out of those breaking pitches/kick AAA ass for the lion's share of next year. *Although, gun-to-head, I'd bet that's what the FO is thinking.