Greg Peavey, Josh Edgin, Collin McHugh, Daniel Murphy, Pat Misch

- There’s a couple of pitchers on the Savannah Sand Gnats that really don’t have that much more to prove at this level. 22-year old RHP Greg Peavey threw his 11th outing Tuesday night, pitching six scoreless innings, giving up zero runs and striking out seven. He’s 5-2 on the season and his ERA is 2.85. One reason he may stay around in Savannah is the fact that he has had three bad outings this season in which he gave up 14-ERs in 15.0-IP. That leaves eight other starts in which he gave up 5-ERs in 45.0-IP. Greg does turn 23 in July and I’d like to see him do St. Lucie for the remainder of 2011, so he can catch up next season with his old extended camp roommate, Matt Harvey, in Binghamton.


- RP/CL Josh Egdin is already 24-years old and couldn’t be more consistent than he has been in the last ten outings. During that period, he has pitched 15.0 scoreless innings (0.00-ERA) while striking out 18. Last night, he pitched another scoreless inning (1-K) ending up the night with a 1.21-ERA. The 6-1 LHP out of Francis Marion University (30th round – 2010) now has 17 outings and nine saves.



- There seems to be concrete evidence that there may be a number of “limited-velo” pitchers out there that deserve a shot at higher levels, regardless of what they have done in the past. They all seem to be college boys that were started too low in the organization also. We’ve got Dillon Gee masquerading as the Mets SP1, Mark Cohoon and Chris Schwinden stepping up at Buffalo, and now Collin McHugh starting in AA after losing his rotation spot a level lower. Collin put up: 6.0-IP, 3-H, 1-ER, 5-K, 0-BB, 1.50 and this is just another example usually writtin off as a “first time around the block” lucky outing. But, ya know what, it’s still great pitching that simply wasn’t hit by anyone.

- The biggest bright spot in the Mets lineup these days has been 2B/1B/3B Daniel Murphy, who has hit .417 in his past ten games. There were two more hits Tuesday night, though neither was an extra base hit. No one has ever questioned Murph’s ability to swing the bat and, with all the starters down, he may easily play every day somewhere for the rest of the season.

- Pat Misch cleared waivers again and has reported back to the Buffalo Bisons.