Full
Name: Jeremy Scott (“No Relation”) Hefner
Position: Pitcher
Born: March 11, 1986
Height: 6’4”
Weight: 215 lbs.
How acquired: Signed off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates
Uniform
number:
53
MLB
experience:
None
Best
season:
2010 for San Antonio in the Texas League. He started 28 games, and went 11-8
with a 2.95 ERA and a 1.235 WHIP. I probably saw him pitch, but it didn’t register.
Injury
history:
None.
2012
salary:
Major League minimum, pro-rated.
Actual
scouting notes:
Hef doesn’t throw hard, or have any devastating breaking balls (this is like
shooting fish in a barrel). He gets by on command to the extent that he does
get by. He’s 26 and is just now appearing in his first major league games,
which makes him a bit of a late bloomer, if he does in fact bloom. His first
eight innings for the Mets have been pretty good, which means almost nothing.
He’s been thrust into the rotation now with all the injuries and ineffectiveness
of the Mets starters. As reliable as a piston engine, he's never had even the most minor injury that I could identify.
Weird,
wild stuff: Jeremy went to Oral Roberts University, meaning he
has only about 1/3 in common with Hugh. The other 2/3, not so much. While he
was in the bullpen, I was wondering if the Mets would rechristen it “The Grotto”.
The Mets as an organization must really like this guy. They drafted him twice,
and then snapped him up when the Bucs waived him. Maybe the Wilpons mistakenly think he
will help them meet Holly or Kendra.