Yesterday, on WFAN, SI.com’s Jon Heyman said the Mets had a meeting earlier this week to discuss their prospects, and seem to have 
no interest in trading Double-A RHP Brad Holt or Jennry Mejia, as well as Fernando Martinez or Ike Davis, among others.
The 22-year-old Holt is 0–3 with a 8.40 ERA in four starts since being promoted to Double-A Binghamton, though he allowed five earned runs in just 0.1 innings in his second start.
Last month, during my trip to Double-A Binghamton, I talked with Holt.
Matthew Cerrone: What has the adjustment to Double-A been like thus far?
Brad Holt: The hitters here are a little more patient. From talking to everybody, they said that if you made mistakes pitching it would cost you… they’d square the ball up. And that’s one thing that I did notice, they get a lot more solid contact, and they square the ball up.
Matthew Cerrone: I talked to you during spring training and all the guys were goofing on you about only throwing fast balls. How is that coming along? How are the other pitches working?
Brad Holt: They are coming along great. The change-up, like I said in spring training, is just a matter of repetition, and the change-up has gotten to be almost a plus-pitch now, and I have been using it a lot.
Matt Cerrone: What pitcher or teams did you enjoy watching as a kid?
Brad Holt: Well, the only team that we had close by us in North Carolina were the Braves. Other than that, I liked watching Roger Clemens growing up. He had that bulldog mentality on the mound that was fun to watch.
Speaking of the B-Mets…
This Saturday, Julie Alexandria and Mets Weekly will profile 22–year-old Double-A C-1B Josh Thole, who had been hitting .346 with 24 extra base hits before going on the disabled list with a thumb injury.
Alexandria also talks with Francisco Rodriguez about the first half of the season, while also profiling Andrew Vazzano of the Ropolitans.
Mets Weekly will air this Saturday at 12:30 pm on SNY.
Someone else on this blog pointed this out before, but I don’t remember who so can’t give proper credit…
But I’m looking forward to the Brad Holt Era for no other reason than the chance to go “Arrested Development” style: Brad Holt!!!
Just read an interesting article of Fox about how the Cardinals better care about whether Pujols is happy.
Of course Pujols is not a free agent until after the 2011 season when he will be 31.
Assuming is output remains out of this world, I find it hard to believe the Cards will be able to pay Pujols the type of money he deserves, while fielding a competitive team.
I would hope the Mets would be players. At least we know the Yankees, with Teixeira would not be a payer. Other such as the Dodgers, Angels and Red Sox probably would be difficult, and an American League team would have the advantage of being able to offer DH role for later in his contract.
I can dream a little, can’t I?
If the Cards feel they will not be able to resign him, it could be a Santana like situation where they may consider trading him and the team that gets him can work out an extension. But I would imagine the Cards would do everything in their power to keep him. But you never know…
Frankly, I think everyone might s well forget about Pujos, he’s not going anywhere anytime soon. He likes St Louis and as long as St Louis continues to try to put a winning team out there every season, Pujos would give a good size “hometown discount” if you will. He has already said as much. Save your energy and your breath, I don’t see Pujos leaving St Louis (barring injury of course) untill atleast 2016.