Article: How Much Longer Will Alex Meyer (and Twins Fans) Wait?

[DocBauer]

Look, I'm a huge Meyer fan and supporter. I completely and utterly believe in him as a top prospect and an eventual stud pitcher. Not just from prospect rankings and box scores, but from watching a couple starts in the AZ league you can just see the velocity and hard downward plane of his stuff, as long as he just keeps his mechanics in check.

 

And I think he just might be on a fast track to the Twin Cities. And I am beyond thrilled with his early start to the season. But a quick reality check please. His innings last year were, unfortunately, limited. He's been a consistent 3rd pitch away from dominance. Fortunately for him, and all of us, he just might have found that pitch. But can we give him more than 5 starts, 2 of them fantastic to be true, at AAA to refine himself, gain confidence and consistency before calling him up?

 

If Meyer keeps doing what he's been doing, gets anywhere from 5 to 10 starts, and is up for the second half, color me pink and tickled to death. So what if he is on an innings limit this year and gets shut down sometime in September in favor of perhaps another young pitcher, May or Darnell or even Deduno? He can gain experience and confidence, pitch for a couple months at the ML level, hopefully with great success, and be poised as a fixture for 2015.

 

I understand wanting our immensely young talented prospects to climb the ladder quickly and put us back in to serious contention. But I think the ideas of Sano, pre-injury, Buxton and Meyer and others all jumping to the majors this season at once, and making huge impacts is just a little bit unrealistic.

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Now, if you want to sign Shields, and deal a legit starter for a SS, I'm all eyes and ear.

only one?

[Richie the Rally Goat]

Bert Blyleven. Because it fits well with the other premises.

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