Harvey as leader

His role on this team is growing quickly.   His leadership as innate as his winning.  From the NY Post:

On the play that ended his bid for a no-hitter in the afternoon, Jason Heyward drizzled a slow roller down the first-base line that seemed to check up like a perfect wedge shot just as Harvey was reaching for the ball. He turned and flipped to first base, which would have been a better idea if there had been an actual Met on first base.

Later, Lucas Duda, the first baseman, would be exonerated by Collins, who said, “He has no idea if the pitcher’s going to be able to get to the ball. He did the right thing.”

Duda wasn’t buying...

At inning’s end, Duda, quite sheepishly, walked over to Harvey.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “That was all my fault.”

And Harvey, eyes on fire but now lasered on Duda’s, practically deflected the words with his hands. “Don’t even give it a second thought,” he said. “We got out of the inning just fine.”

Later, Duda would say, smiling, shaking his head: “That’s a good guy.”

Such is the respect Harvey already commands with his teammates, the gravitas he already carries, after less than a year on the job. It was useful to see this, to be reminded of just how far Harvey has come and how quickly he’s arrived there, on the day that Wheeler arrived to try to play Koosman to Harvey’s Seaver, Darling to his Gooden, and did so splendidly.

It's Wheeler Day!

Zack turned himself around in AAA, and we're deep enough in the season that the Mets will retain an additional year of owning the rights to Zack, so now he's getting the call to the bigs.  Must watch TV tonight for Mets fans.

Right on the heels of Harvey's masterful afternoon performance, Mets fans get a glimpse of the future today.  Harvey and Wheeler.

Is it too much to think that in 2015 the Mets could have one of the best rotations of the bigs with Harvey, Wheeler, Montero, Gee and Niese? 

Wheeler and Montero will need to live up to the promise, but it's certainly not impossible.

Meanwhile, don't look now, but Jack Leathersich is averaging 2 K's/IP as he mows down hitters in the Eastern League PCL (he's now been promoted to AAA) and racks up the saves.  Snydergaard is lurking as well, about to be promoted to AA.  Getting a bit giddy, now.