Bob Ojeda also doesn’t seem to think Jenrry Mejia should be in the Major League bullpen:
Q: Do you think Jenrry Mejia is major league ready?
A: I am a big believer in you can’t get by with one pitch. When I was [in Florida] earlier in spring training, his other pitches were coming along, but the fastball is the only pitch he can depend on. And if there is a day when that fastball doesn’t show up, then he would have no plan B.
So there’s that.
Sure, Bobby O might think that, but he doesn’t have self-preservation blinding his opinion. Only Jerry and Omar have that sort of reasoned insight.
I’d be curious to know what Ronnie has to say about this, too. Former pitchers certainly would seem to have insight about this that the rest of us don’t.
Which begs the question, where is Dan Warthen in all of this? Shouldn’t the pitching coach have major input in a pitching prospects development, major league readyness and etc?
Where’s Dan Warthen? Probably the same place Howard Johnson was last year when Tony Bernazard was implementing the team’s hitting philosophy.
I believe it’s called the Nick Evans Building for the Missing In Action. The lobby is named after Adam Rubin.
If there is anyone intelligent in the Mets’ front office, he or she must feel like Luke Wilson in Idiocracy while at work.