His fastball is sick with some late-breaking movement. He reminds me of Octavio Dotel in his delivery, body type and stuff.

I think at this point the Mets front office may be starting to view Mejia at the #1 pitching prospect over Holt – mainly because his secondary pitches are more advanced than Holt’s.

He is not and never was a phenom. He has never shown any substantial reason to believe he is a big time prospect. The only thing people continue to hang their hat on with Martinez is that he was playing level X and Y age.

He has never had a minor league season that makes you look and say wow, he is really something.

Does that make him a bust? Hard to say, I think he was extremely overhyped and at the end of the day will be a very mediocre major league player at best.

And btw…there is some debate as to whether he is not actually a couple of years older than people think.

I’d prefer an average defensive SS with amazing offense over a plus offense plus defense corner OF.

Hopefully he stays fluid and limber.

He is a much better fielder than we expected and he will hit. He hit enough at every level he has been at to stay more than competitive with the guys in his league who were much older.

He is 20 now. Not every phenom comes to the bigs and sets the world on fire.

I for one think that FMart has been pushed too quickly but I think this extended taste of the bigs will ultimately prove more valuable to his growth than hinder it by slashing his confidence. He now knows to hit in the bigs, he must master the zone and not expand it and he must learn to hit the offspeed pitches, the sliders and split fingers that dive in the zone. He is too talented not to adjust eventually.

In any event, these guys are starting to get some attention. I am all for building from within, but it also presents us with some trading chips (if needed). Somehow, I think Omar (or whomever) signs a big free agent or two in the offseason (OF/1B and possibly P) so we can preserve some of these guys.