Frank Viola, in his capacity as the pitching coach at Triple-A Las Vegas, recently graduated Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz to the big leagues to round out an electric Mets rotation of the present and future.
The ex-Mets ace and 1988 AL Cy Young winner has an inside view of the next wave of live arms progressing through the Mets farm system. So the question was natural, if a bit impatient: Who’s next?
“Immediate future, the only name I can probably throw out is Matt Bowman, the kid from Princeton,” Viola said Wednesday night on SNY. “He struggled a little bit earlier this year, but he’s learning.