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Wilson was 2-5 last night with a double and 3 ribbies.  Ho hum......
Hey guys, unless their name is Pujols or Bautista or Wright or Ichiro (add the appropriate names here) ALL major leaguers are mistake hitters!  That's the point.  Being able to clobber mistakes makes you a MLB hitter.  NOBODY is clobbering Pineda or Felix or Cliff Lee when they are spotting their best stuff.
MLB pitchers that stay MLB pitchers for a long time do so because they don't make many mistakes that guys like Jack Cust can punish.  Jack Cust loses his MLB value when he can no longer clobber those relative mistakes.
Certainly a great pitcher gets beat once in a while or gives up a HR on a 97 mph fast ball on the inside black, but (the point being) that doesn't happen very often.
All MLB pitchers make mistakes. Good ones just don't do it as often. Great ones do it seldomly and generally have the stuff to survive those mistakes.
Great MLB hitters knock the snot out of mistakes AND manage to get some damage in on good pitches, too.  Occassional, being the operative word. 
Good MLB hitters punish a pitchers mistakes and USUALLY go back to the dugout on a pitchers great stuff.
Replacement level players capitalize on the mistakes SOMETIMES AND they almost never manage to get a hit against a 97 MPH Pineda heater on the inside black.
Crappy hitters rarely hit the mistakes and don't have an ice cube's chance against Cliff Lee's "A" pitch.
Can Mike Wilson hit MLB mistakes?  Can he hit the centered 93 MPH fastball?  Can he hit the curve up? (And he will see 2 or 3 or 4 of those pitches every nght)  His track record suggests that he can clobber those mistakes that are thrown by guys that are just about to be MLB pitchers (and who will be, just as soon as they make fewer mistakes).
Wilson will get plenty of mistakes to hit in the majors, just like everybody else does.  He will get fewer than he gets in Tacoma, however....this is true.
The record suggests he will do just fine against those mistakes.
He isn't going to be Pujols or Bautista or Wright or Ichiro but he will be OK at the MLB level, given some time to get over the jitters. Is he going to make us forget Edgar?  Ha!  But were he to be on the roster today, I doubt we would be longing for the good old days of Ryan Langerhans and Jeremy Reed.