Dillon Gee had, on the surface, a shaky outing for the Buffalo Bisons last night, allowing four earned runs on nine hits — including a homer — over 5 1/3 innings.
But Gee struck out eight and walked one, and that’s kind of Dillon Gee’s thing. He’s got 144 strikeouts and only 34 walks in 145 innings in Triple-A this year. That’s an exceptional ratio. And he’s still only 24.
Problem is he’s got a 4.84 ERA on the season. Part of that probably comes from pitching in front of a defense filled up with Quadruple-A mashers doing right by the city of Buffalo and wrong by their pitching staffs, but part of it is probably because he gets hit pretty hard. Gee has allowed 155 hits and 19 homers in those 145 innings.
I was planning on writing more about Gee, but then I saw that Toby Hyde promised to write something about Gee today, so I’ll leave it at that. I’m interested in seeing what Toby has to say.
My point is this: I’d much rather see what Gee and his stellar peripherals could do at the Major League level for the rest of the season than watch the Mets trot out Pat Misch every fifth day.
Gee’s probably not great, but they can’t all be aces. Maybe after an audition against Major League hitting in front of a Major League defense, the Mets can slot him in as a back of the rotation guy for 2011.
Also, he’d be the single biggest boon to area headline writers since Jae Seo.
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A bigger boon to headline writers than Wang and Dickey? Though I guess print media are somewhat limited in how effectively they can use those.
Yeah you can’t get too nuts with Wang on the front page of the Daily News.
You can spread Dickey all over the front page of the Post though, it seems.
Hmm, thats sort of unfair to Misch, though isnt it? I mean, Misch has had a much better year than Gee, and although he doesnt have the upside, there’s not to be some sort of payoff for putting in a solid minor league performance. Remember, that some former players (Heath Bell maybe?) mentioned that one of the big problems they had with the Mets was lack of meritocracy when it came to going from the minors to the majors.