why is that silly?

No one is trying to say he’s not a good prospect. One measly inning isn’t enough to pass judgment on anyone. You’re not wrong to be encouraged by the stuff, but you just can’t ignore today’s walk total and the 18/21 ball-to-strike ratio.

just ask Ollie Perez.

But the claim that Mejia pitched poorly in today’s game is not untrue. He did pitch poorly. Its just as silly to gush about his 98mph heat as if it was something we didn’t already know about. Its not like that’s any more relevant to the discussion, at least in terms of learning anything new about him goes.

And was his curve that good? I don’t mean that in facetious way, I legitimately want to know if that’s true and what your source is, because judging by the strike to ball ratio, it seems like he was all over the place. He threw four curves according to gameday. Three missed up in the zone (if you believe the pitch location on gameday), and the fourth was a called strike. He threw a lot of changeups, and it seems like they were effective against lefties, but he got burned throwing a first pitch changeup to the second batter of the second inning (righty batter), who took it to left for a triple. By my count, he threw 12 changeups in total, and generally used the pitch effectively, though 5 went for balls, only two went for swinging strikes, and while one led to a groundout, another led to a triple, so its hardly like he used the pitch as a dominant weapon.

as a big cyclones guy it just tickles me silly to hear about my boys making good. why i remember chanting “We… like… Ike!” and hollering “Zippety Dudaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!” like it’s yesterday.