Sam Dykstra

He's in the middle of the strong Mets top 30.

But I think the Mets can kind of risk it knowing that he might get the bat knocked out of his hands a few times and not stick with a major league organization.

Oh, I know how it feels.

Yeah, I think he's been defined by throwing the ball hard, as you said.

I mean, he's also gotten a lot of appearances out here.

He actually leads the Fall League and starts with four.

So the Red Sox are obviously telling the Salt River Rafters he's our priority.

We want him out there as much as we can because it was a very late start to the year for him coming off Tommy John.

I got to see him last night.

He touched triple digits.

I think he got up to 100.5.

With the pitch that he seems to be honing in on most is that cutter, which is low 90s cutter.

So if you're sitting there thinking triple digits is going to come, here's this little sharp pitch in the low 90s that's still pretty hard by cutter standards.

And he can get a lot of swing and miss on that.

Last night's game was interesting because the first inning, he was getting soft contact.

He was getting strikeouts, but...

You can only control so much, and one was I think he got a soft hit to the opposite field for a single.

There was a dribbler up the first baseline that the first baseman and second baseman didn't communicate on.

So it ended up being like a 23-pitch inning despite him throwing, I want to say, like 15 strikes.

That's the way it goes sometimes, and I think that trickled down to the later innings.