I feel like the concern here is more justified than it is for Holt. With Holt, I feel like its just a bunch of talking heads who see a good fastball and a big body and decide he’s a reliever. Mejia though, there are more layers of concern. Even if he’s putting up better numbers and probably also has a better breaking ball, he’s a little guy who throws really hard with lots of moving parts. Holt is a big guy who really makes great use of his physical gifts efficiently and cleanly. His velocity spikes and dips very little in-game, and he’s already proven he can go well more than 100 pitches deep without losing much if anything “stuff-wise”.

The difference between Guerra and Mejia: Mejia has an arm that makes scouts salivate. Guerra had a body that made scouts salivate. Guerra never quite translated his physicality into consistent “stuf,f” or for that matter, into results, and he never had Mejia’s pure arm. Mejia doesn’t have to worry about “stuff,” his arm is that good, but he doesn’t have Guerra’s projectability or body type. Scouts who see Mejia as a reliever probably have one thing on their minds: Carlos Marmol. But Mejia’s way ahead of where Marmol was at 19, even if the profile is somewhat similar.

As much as I would hate saying this, it might be a good thing in the long run for old Wright to tweak something very minor so that without Wright and Reyes we can really see the team Omar built, good (Santana, Beltran, Pelf, Maine) average, (Murphy) and bad (everything else). The resulting 2-13 streak would ensure that Omar loses his job before he does too much damage trying to save it (although he was in a similar situation last year and handed it responsibly, again, credit where it is due).