Wondering what the plan is for Noah Syndergaard?
According to Andy Martino of the Daily News who spoke to Mets insiders, he will follow the same path as Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler before him.
The process is familiar by now: Mets pitching prospect spends nearly all of spring training in big league camp, but is told he will not break camp with the team. Fans, and maybe even some teammates and coaches, beg for him sooner, but concerns over player development (and business-side stuff like arbitration status and free agency clock), trump those arguments, and the prospect goes to Triple-A, where is every start is scrutinized.
If the prospect pitches reasonably well, the fan base begs for him NOW. Sandy Alderson says: Soon, but not just yet. We in the media begin to bicker over the exact date of prospect’s debut. Then, in June or July, prospect becomes rookie. In September, he hits his innings limit.
That plan has already been drawn up for Syndergaard, sources say.
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I was a kid when Seaver and Koosman came up, Seaver winning rookie of year in 1967 and Koosman edged by Bench the next year. Which have would been a massive waste of talent. Today, both would join the Mets in mid-June. Noah and Montero may not be fully perfected but both could open in Mets’ starting rotation. Without a doubt…$$$is the driving factor, not readiness.
Sorry…I meant to say that the massive waste of talent would have been Seaver and Koosman being called up in mid June