Tom Brennan - AN EX-MET FARMHAND'S PERSEVERANCE GETS HIM TO THE BIGS

Domingo Tapia was one of those puzzling Mets prospect dudes.

Threw 100 MPH, but kept stalling in the minors.

Crappy minor league career: 38-50, 4.85 in 685 innings from 2010 thru 2019, with just a very puzzling 523 Ks for a supposed 100 MPH guy.

In 2014, at St Lucie, for instance, he fanned just 56 hitters in 109 innings.  I remember at the time how much that puzzled me.

2016 was his last season in the Mets organization.

All told, ten years in the minors.

Last year in AAA, he had a 6.41 ERA.  He must have thought he was Michael Wacha or something, with that ERA.

But the Red Sox nonetheless called him up for 4 relief appearances in this strange year - maybe it was desperation given their team 5.58 ERA - but Tapia did well, if ever so briefly: 4.1 IP, 1 run, 4 Ks.  

Read he was clocked at an average 99.1 this year.

So, you can be worse than mediocre, but if you can throw 100, you may someday get your chance in the bigs, too.

Fairy tales, can come true, it can happen to you, if you throw 99.