Zach Wheeler RUMORS & NEWS

New York Post "The Mets have clearly reached the countdown stage to Zack Wheeler's major league debut. A high-ranking team official told The Post on Thursday that barring a setback, the club's top pitching prospect is expected to make 2-3 more starts for Triple-A Las Vegas and then join the Mets. If Wheeler..." May 24

New York Post "Zack Wheeler was “rusty” in his return to the mound for Triple-A Las Vegas yesterday, but improved as his start in Des Moines, Iowa, progressed. “Honestly, nothing was working real well for me today,” the Mets’ top pitching prospect said after surrendering three runs on five hits, including two..." May 23

Newark Star-Ledger "Zack Wheeler visited doctors today in New York after reporting soreness around his right clavicle Monday and doctors did not find structural damage, his agent told The Star-Ledger. "All good," Wheeler's agent Al Goetz said via text message. "No structural damage." Wheeler pitched on for..." May 16

New York Post "Zack Wheeler finally has arrived in New York, but not to pitch for the Mets. The team’s top pitching prospect will be examined Wednesday at the Hospital for Special Surgery, after complaining of soreness in his right collarbone on Monday. He has been scratched from his scheduled start on Friday..." May 15

North Jersey "Sandy Alderson understands the danger of putting a stud prospect (Zack Wheeler) on a struggling team. Fair or unfair, fans will expect him to be a savior. But in a radio interview with WFAN’s Mike Francesa, Alderson acknowledged that Wheeler will be with the Mets sooner rather than..." May 14

ESPN New York "If avoiding an extra year of arbitration eligibility for Zack Wheeler is important to the Mets -- and a team insider says it is a priority -- the top prospect may not make his major league debut for another month. Still, the insider projected, Wheeler will spend a half-season in the majors to..." May 13

New York Daily News "After Zack Wheeler displayed significant improvement in his past two starts for Triple-A Las Vegas, it was time to ask if the team’s timetable to promote its top prospect to the major leagues had accelerated. Different Mets officials offered slightly different answers and timetables on..." May 10

New York Post "Zack Wheeler is finally blowing away the competition. After a stretch of five shaky starts to begin the season for Triple-A Las Vegas, the Mets’ top pitching prospect had his second straight dominant outing on Sunday, when he pitched six shutout innings against Sacramento. “Outstanding — the..." May 07

New York Post "Playing at Triple-A Las Vegas, top Mets prospect Zack Wheeler is just one level away from the big leagues. But the right-hander’s early-season results suggested he was still a couple steps from joining Matt Harvey in the big-league rotation. Wheeler took one of those steps yesterday. The..." May 01

Newark Star-Ledger "Mets top pitching prospect Zack Wheeler may be further away than first thought. With the Mets hoping Wheeler can save this season as their third starter, he fell flat Friday at Triple-A Las Vegas, yielding four runs and three hits while striking out four and walking six in 4⅓ innings against..." April 21

New York Post "Prized Mets pitching prospect Zack Wheeler, who had to deal with a blister earlier in the season, had another rough outing Friday night for Triple-A Las Vegas. He allowed just three hits against Sacramento, but coughed up four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings due to six walks. His ERA rose to 4.91,..." April 21

New York Daily News "With the back end of the Mets rotation struggling through the first two weeks of the season, calls for top pitching prospect Zack Wheeler are getting louder. Even Terry Collins said he might have to think about asking for some of the young, quality reinforcements the franchise has stockpiled in..." April 18

New York Post "Mets officials were concerned enough about a blister on top pitching prospect Zack Wheeler’s middle finger that they recently sent him for an MRI exam on the affected area, a club source told The Post yesterday. Assistant general manager John Ricco said he was unaware of the MRI exam, but..." April 11

New York Post "Jose Fernandez dropped a calling card at Citi Field yesterday, a notice that the Mets are not alone in the arms race. The precocious righty’s first start above Single-A was an impressive major league debut. Born a month after the Yankees drafted a shortstop named Derek Jeter in 1992, Fernandez..." April 09

New York Daily News "Zack Wheeler, one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, was reprimanded last weekend along with teammate Aderlin Rodriguez for an on-field incident that led to ethnic tensions in the Mets’ minor league clubhouse, according to organizational sources. In a minor league intrasquad game last..." March 31

New York Post "Zack Wheeler threw batting practice yesterday for the first time since injuring his oblique. That was the good news. The bad news was the batting-practice session came in minor league camp after the Mets right-hander was among the cuts from the major league team. It was a development that..." March 11

New York Post "Late yesterday morning, as Team Venezuela stretched in front of the visiting dugout near first base, Zack Wheeler and Johan Santana played catch, side-by-side down the left-field line. Wheeler threw to pitching coach Dan Warthen and Santana to Pedro Feliciano on an otherwise empty field. On..." March 07

Bergen Record "Zack Wheeler, scratched from his last start with a mild right oblique strain, is expected to throw a bullpen Tuesday or Wednesday, pitching coach Dan Warthen said. Warthen said Wheeler may throw two bullpens before his next start, which could be right around the corner. "If everything goes..." March 04

New York Post "Zack Wheeler’s next scheduled start has been nixed, but the Mets were relieved yesterday to determine the rookie phenom’s strained right oblique likely won’t require a major layoff. The right-hander was scratched from his start against the Cardinals on Wednesday after straining the oblique..." March 01

New York Daily News "One day after the oblique strain heard ’round New York, Mets pitching prospect Zack Wheeler was able to do some exercises Thursday and report improvement. Wheeler, a late scratch from Wednesday’s scheduled start after suffering what the Mets called a “mild oblique strain” during batting practice,..." March 01

New York Post "That’s a pain in the ace. Just when Zack Wheeler had emerged as the Mets’ must-see spring training attraction, the fireballing phenom yesterday strained a right oblique taking swings in batting practice and was scratched from his start against the Cardinals. The Mets are calling the injury a..." February 28

ESPN.com "Zack Wheeler's absence from game action with a mild strain of his right oblique may only be about a week. Terry Collins told ESPNNewYork.com on Thursday afternoon that Wheeler's injury is "not very bad." The hope is to get Wheeler back on a bullpen mound in five days, with the top prospect..." February 28

ESPN.com "New York Mets top prospect Zack Wheeler admitted he was "definitely" looking forward to facing the Cardinals' Carlos Beltran for the first time, since the players were swapped in a July 28, 2011, trade. A pregame introduction with no in-game faceoff will have to suffice for now. Wheeler was..." February 27

New York Post "When Zack Wheeler entered the game in the third inning of the Mets’ spring training opener yesterday, the temperature at Tradition Field read 86 degrees. It was about to get hotter. The blazing right-hander turned up the heat. A few more spring outings like this, and Wheeler will be forcing..." February 24

New York Post "Zack Wheeler is a big name in Mets camp, but until yesterday many of his potential future teammates had never seen him throw a pitch. It didn’t take long into Wheeler’s 30-pitch live batting practice against Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd and John Buck for the Mets to understand why there is so..." February 21

New York Daily News "And so the hype continues to build for Zack Wheeler. On the day he faced big-league hitters for the first time, throwing live batting practice on a spring training back field, Justin Turner invoked no less a name than Stephen Strasburg. “He’s got some late life on his fastball, it kind of jumps..." February 21

New York Post "Get ready for a Zack Attack. Prized pitching prospect Zack Wheeler is prepared to give it his best shot to make the Mets’ rotation this spring, but no matter what happens, he knows he is here to learn. “I’m ready to get going, I’m definitely looking forward to it,’’ the young right-hander..." February 05