Comments on: Read: Analyzing Mike Pelfrey

By: gmoney45

gmoney45 — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:28:35 +0000

Great point. How do we know the curve was not good enough to get out major league hitters…if he never got to use it against major league hitters? In my opinion a coaches job is to take a players best talents and maximize them. If Pelf had a curve that he was comfortable with and that had gotten hitters out at every level that he had been to so far, why in the holy hell did we have him scrap it before it ever got hit? As for the comment about Kazmir topping out four miles an hour faster than Kazmir, that must mean he throws 101 cuz i have seen pelf top out at 97. The next four starts for this young man are huge….if he does well with schneider behind the plate then we just might have something special. If he continues to be a head case, well then…he’s a head case. In that event hurry back pedro, we miss you. Too bad we cant put Figgy’s head and grit into pelf’s body…we would have one really good pitcher!

By: Deadpanwalking

Deadpanwalking — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:47:53 +0000

Also a good point. We’ll get a better read on Pelf after pitching two or three games with Schneider catching. Nothing against Cassanova, he’s done a nice job filling in.

By: Deadpanwalking

Deadpanwalking — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:46:16 +0000

Exactly. Being able to locate the fastball is the cornerstone of pitching. Not to mention those curve balls that devastate at lower levels get clobbered and how against the majors. He just needs to sharpen the fastball and the rest will follow.

By: The Glider

The Glider — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:17:38 +0000

At best, Pelfrey should be a reliever. But that requires that he locate his fast ball, which, as we all know, is dubious. He needs to be assigned to work on stuff – a lot of stuff – one inning at a time. He doesn’t belong in the starting rotation and keeping him there is going to doom Omar and Willie (unless, of course, the Wilpons are directing them to keep him in the rotation).

Aaron Heilman should be moved to the starting rotation.

By: The Glider

The Glider — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:13:32 +0000

Thank you. Thank you.

By: the clap

the clap — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:15:43 +0000

1. Pelf has a “get-me-over” slider?
2. How does that differ from his “hit-me-hard” slider?

By: Dafatone80

Dafatone80 — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:07:12 +0000

Exactly. I’m stunned that people can actually think Peterson would have a pitcher stop throwing his curve if it were anything better than bad.

Look at Barry Zito pitch now. His curve sucks. It drops about a foot, as opposed to the 3 foot break he used to have. Guys tee off on it.

Pelfrey just needs to learn to attack the zone with his fastball. If he can get ahead of hitters and get them to fear the movement on his fastball, his mediocre slider or changeup or whatever offspeed pitches he throws will be good enough.

By: falcon4e

falcon4e — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:43:16 +0000

Nichols, while you may be a good Met fan and maybe you’ve been a Met fan your last life or whatever, but that doesn’t make you a scout, talent evaluator, coach or general manager.

If Pelfrey curveball was good, he’d be using it. It’s not. I heard an interview with a scout about two years and they asked him the same time. The scout’s take basically was that if they switched him to a slider its because his curve wasn’t going to be an effective ML pitch. In this scout’s assertion, that was a red flag that basically told Pelfrey he was all fastball.

By: Tidewater

Tidewater — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:15:15 +0000

That’s a great idea!

By: Tidewater

Tidewater — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:11:03 +0000

Pelfrey’s stuff is not nearly as good as Kazmir’s. Never was.