Quote: Mike Pelfrey on his 2008
Last night on SNY’s Mets Hot Stove, Mike Pelfrey had the following to say, when asked about the day things started to click for him last season:
“I think the biggest thing was believing in myself… Sometimes you go out there and try to do more than your capable of. Finally, in the LA game, and I kind of backed off and just tried to throw strikes and I learned there that, hey, I just need to be myself and I can be successful. I don’t need to do more than I am capable of. And once I learned that I started gaining more confidence, I started having better games, and it just took off from there.”
…i will be the first to admit that i thought pelfrey was destine to be a back-end starter, if not a reliever, but i think that speaks more to my impatience…
…i actually expect pelfrey to take a slight step back at some point next season, because i think that is only natural…this is why i am very much in favor of the Mets signing a guy like Derek Lowe, because i think the additional millions will be worth the consistency he delivers…being able to bank on essentially the same start, game in and game out, from lowe and Johan Santana, will be vital when given pelfrey’s understandable adjustment and John Maine’s recovery from shoulder surgery…
…at any rate, once pelfrey learns how to command an inning, and matures in that sense, be it next year or the subsequent years after, i believe he has the potential to be a Brandon Webb type, if for no other reason than he has a 95–mph fastball to compliment those pitches down in the zone…i look forward to continuing to watch him develop…
To watch all of Pelfrey’s interview with Kevin Burkhardt and Dan Graziano, courtesy of SNY, click here.
Lastly, to watch Burkhardt’s interview with Daniel Murphy from his home in Jacksonville, Fla., click here.
