Hey Ted, how’s the Pascucci watch 2011 coming? It looks like he’s having another great year. Anything you can blog about?

– Wayne, via email.

I hoped the departure of Carlos Beltran was going to mean a big-league call for Val Pascucci, in what would have to be the most bittersweet TedQuarters moment imaginable. Nearly every position player the Mets had in Triple-A who was on the 40-man roster was either hurt or still within a 10-day window of being sent down, and the team has room on the 40-man and can make more by moving Ike Davis to the 60-day DL.

But alas, they called on the only position player in Triple-A who was healthy, on the 40-man and eligible to come up: catcher Mike Nickeas.

Meanwhile, Pascucci just keeps crushing the ball. The 6’6″ masher is rocking a .282/.393/.515 line, alarmingly similar to his career Triple-A mark of .277/.396/.515. The guy is as regular as… I don’t know, a quartz clock? Someone with an extremely high fiber diet?

So yeah, Wayne: Pascucci Watch continues. But I don’t know what more anyone has to see. The guy destroys Triple-A pitching, and no one seems eager to find out if he can do the same in the Majors. He apparently isn’t much one for defense, he strikes out a bunch, and he’s 32. Soon enough, the window will close.

September is coming, and the Mets don’t have many obvious candidates for call-ups that aren’t already on the 40-man. Throw the guy a bone, huh?