and so completely off base that i rec’d out of utter confusion.

Most Minor League prospect guys I’ve all heard say Mejia has the potential upside of a middle-to-front line starter. Much higher than being a run of the mill relief pitcher.

The Mets organization is not united behind the idea that Mejia is destined to be a reliever, let alone the rest of baseball.

Warthen was complicit in placing Mejia in the bullpen last year. My guess is that he rationalized the move, and began to believe his lie. Combine that with a motor mouth, and we get his view broadcast.

in conjunction with their own scouts assertions who probably find themselves in agreement with, to whatever degree to begin with. I’ve been trampled on a couple times for daring to say that I believed that Mejia’s starting detractors were right from the get go. Having a closer in waiting is not the worst thing to have. Not especially if you’ve got a big fat contract coming to its end in K-Rod and a much more effective use of that kind of money that could and should be thrown into the rotation one way or another. Maybe loosen up enough pocket change to find yourself in the market for Francisco Liriano?

Do you think for the sake of Mejia’s prospective value as a starter that we’d perpetuate that idea by keeping him as a starter in the minors with the knowledge and opinion that he’s best suited in the pen? Its just an opinion and the actions that follow would best dictate our true assessment on Mejia anyway.

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like missing a wide-open 3-pointer

First off, he was 20 and had all of 44.1 mediocre innings above A+ ball. Second, he looked good in the spring but mainly pitched against minor leaguers when he came in. Third, he’s 20 and should be developing as a starter until he proves that he cannot be a legitimate major league starter (something that he’s never proven at this point that he can’t do). Fourth and most importantly in my eyes…he wasn’t on the 40 man roster and wouldn’t have been Rule V eligible until this year. By adding him to the 40 man and keeping him up from April through June, they wasted not only valuable minor league development time but also a good 3 months of ML service time along with burning a very valuable option year. Now if they had to add him to avoid losing him in the Rule V draft, then by all means add him to the roster. And if he proved ready for the majors as a starter, okay. But they didn’t have to do the first thing and didn’t prove the second thing. It’s not a big deal at the moment but it gives the Mets a lot less wiggle room down the road in case he needs some more minor league seasoning. Ruben Tejada’s in the same boat.

Adding him to the team on opening day just wasn’t warranted. Personally, I would’ve been fine with letting him start at AA in April, see if he deserves a promotion to AAA and then if they wanted to, they could’ve added him to the 40 man and called him up in August or September. That way he gets his slate of innings in the minors, works on his pitches, gets a promotion to AAA and finishes his season with a big league callup as a reward for the hard work, all while saving an option year (since they wouldn’t have to demote him at season’s end…his next demotion to the minors would be Opening Day 2011).