It just seems like the game yesterday kick-started a chain reaction. Like, if they just played 9 yesterday, do they DFA Jacobs and bring up Ike today? Maybe, but I never got the sense Jacobs was on his way out.

And if they were so concerned about not starting Ike’s clock early, why not apply that same logic to Mejia? I mean, 1B was a bigger weakness than the pen coming into the season.

I was only against calling up Ike for service time reasons, but that is not an issue apparently. The guy can hit and is a solid defender. It’s very common for studs to get called up without much, if any, AAA experiece. Heyward only had one great year in the minors and played just 3 games at AAA and is doing fine. Sure they will face problems with major league breaking balls but they will not learn by facing minor-league breaking pitches. That just is something every hitter must learn, but Ike is solid and is ready now I think.

Our Pythagorean W-L should be .500 despite Beltran being out and Jacobs eating up the most cleanup at bats. We’ve lost a lot of close games, mainly due to weak hitting. Wright and Bay are not getting much good pitches because of lack of threats in front and behind them. The Mets need a real bat and Ike is ready now. The Mets can actually compete once the get some offensive support. Frenchy’s unforeseen change in attitude really is a huge boost to the Mets prospects this year. We just need Beltran and Ike to solidify our lineup. If we can play .500 ball until Beltran returns, which is not far-fetched, we can make a serious run.

Ike’s impact can be huge if you consider that the Mets heart of the lineup can now feature Wright, Ike, Bay, and Frenchy. Until we can go 4 straight solid players without an extremely weak link then we can start winning some of these close games we’ve been losing.

After completely crushing AAA-ML pitchers in ST, stud prospects in the Fall League, and AA pitching last year. Over the last decade or so many teams have sent up stud prospects with little or no AAA seasoning because there is little seasoning to do there. Learning to hit soft-tossers with average breaking balls in AAA doesn’t do much for a players development as soft tossers with great breaking balls tend to be in the Majors (there are not really that many pitchers with heat in the majors as only 44 have an average fastball of 91 mph or more).

The only reason why there is even some doubt about Ike is because he had a single bad half-year in his whole life in his first time in professional ball. He’s 23 years old, extremely talented (was a great pitcher just 2 years ago), grew up around baseball, has a father who can guide him through handling NY and major league pressure, and has crushed every pitch he has seen over the last year. Time is plenty. Wright was also in a similar position after crushing AA, Fall leagues and ST there was nothing left for him to do in AAA. Same with Heyward who only played about 3 games in AAA. There is a time when it just becomes clear that a prospect has no reason remaining in AAA. This is Ike’s time.

The only bad side to sending Ike up now is it hides Omar’s and Jerry’s ineptitude if he hits well. There was no reason why Carter shouldn’t have been brought up instead of Jacobs to start the year.