It’s fitting that Wade Meckler’s name follows Luis Matos alphabetically, thus chronologically canonized in the McCovey Chronicles 2023 Player Review Bible. For a summer, their names were tied. Same position, shared youth, chasing each other through the San Francisco Giants farm system.
Meckler started the season in High-A Eugene. He was called up to Double-A Richmond (after casually hitting .456 over 20 games) on May 17th—the same day Luis Matos was promoted from Richmond to Sacramento. 39 games in Richmond in which he dipped into our atmosphere, hitting .336 with an .881 OPS, meant a jump up to Triple-A on August 1st.