Mike Pelfrey pitched a bullpen session this morning, and said he is ready to return to the rotation on Saturday, according to Adam Rubin of the Daily News.
To read a quote from Pelfrey, go to Rubin’s blog.
By the way, Rubin will be answering questions from readers live at noon.
To see a picture of Pelfrey in action, go to the Bergen Record.
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GO BIG PELF!!!
hey ditry i thought u changed ur name?? what’s up..
lol….the dirty hat of sanchez was to depressing lol…gotta bring back some doble sentido ;p
The name change was nice. It was like a day of mourning, and now you’re back.
there ya go..grave gets it
PELFREY!!! WE NEED YOU MAN..
I think I’m gonna give him a big get well hug and lots of kisses!!
big pelf is happily married
I dont know why they have to baby these athletes like they are women, sometimes. These are not only grown men but elite world class athletes, the best of the best. They are physically more dominant than 99% of humanity.
I realize they are valuable commodities but if this organization wants to win it needs some more balls and it needs to instill some aggressiveness, not fear, throughout its entire organization.
There is a reason the Phillies took us down. Aaron Rowand running full steam into a wall in 2006 and the ballsier play of the rest of the Phillies. I miss Dykstra and I miss the days when players played hard and didnt come out of games because of broken fingernails.
Cmon Mets, lets instill the right attitudes in these men. Stop babying Santana and the rest of these guys. Lets be men here not women.
What did Aaron Rowand’s wall crash have anything to do with taking us down? The Phillies didn’t make the playoffs that year. And last year, we beat them 11 out of 18 times. The Phillies just happened to get hot while we couldn’t beat the Nationals and Marlins.
The Phillies just happened to get hot while we couldn’t beat the Nationals and Marlins.
This says it all. The Mets choked while the Phillies came through.
Chan Ho, I would put it like this:
The Phillies just happened to have all their players healthy all season, except for Jimmy Rollins who missed roughly 3 weeks at the very start of the season, while the Mets were on LF #12, 2B #4, and spent the last 2 months of the season trying to find closer #2 while the Phillies’ closer was improbably perfect. Through all that, the Phightin’ Phils managed to be 3 games better. I take my hat off to them.
What are the #s for?
They signify how deep the Mets had to go on their depth chart to fill those positions throughout the season, in stark contrast to the Phillies fairly universal health, to ultimately finish 3 games behind those Phillies.
Rowand’s catch helped give them a tougher, more aggressive identity as a team that helped them in 2007 and 2008. It helped mold them into a tougher, more resilient team that played harder and more aggressively.
Im not saying it was solely responsible just that it was one of those moments that helped instill in them an idenity of a tougher, harder team.
LOL, that’s about the funniest most insane thing I have read in years. I guess if we had won last year Church’s 2 concussions would have been the reason.
Not to mention that the Phillies basically let Rowand go to the Giants and won the WS without him.
So esovia, did Beltran and Cameron running into each other in 2005 pave the way for our playoff run in 2006?
How about George Theodore and Don Hahn running into each other in 1973—without that, we never would have made the playoffs that year!
All I know is, that one night where Rowand made the catch was the first night I knew the Phillies owned us and I started to feel genuine fear of the Phillies. I tried to deny it, but deep down I knew the Phillies had us. It was that one game. I knew wed win in 2006 but I knew also that the Phillies were going to take us down.
It was like we couldnt put them away in that game. We had them and we just couldnt put them away. It happened again and again after that. Every time they tried to bury them they rose up and buried us.
EVeryone on the Mets: get hurt for no good reason! It builds character! Run headlong into walls! Get your feet run over by a Humvee! Slam your pitching elbow with a ballpeen hammer! That’s how the Phillies won it all!
While this post is very creative and humorously sarcastic without it, the use of the phrase “ballpeen hammer” really puts it over the top!
explains the injuries so far in spring, you might be on to something!!
Seriously, his post was incredibly ridiculous. Not even Alex, Mr. Bill, Oleo or even the famous Mist erMet could come up with anything like that.
Yeah, this is an instant all-time cla*sic….Rowand’s catch in 2006 helped them when we made it to the 9th inning of the 2006 LCS, then they let Roward go and won without him 2 years later.
Almost too much, really.
I thought the guy the other day saying JJ wasn’t an upgrade over Schoeneweis was something, but this is indeed plumbing the depths in a rather impressive manner.
You have to think the guy was joking, otherwise the pool is almost out of water.
Haha!!
Look, we all know harder, aggressive play wins. The other night Barkley was talking about how soft the Dallas Mavericks are. Soft teams dont win. It’s the harder, more aggressive teams like the Celtics that win.
The bottom line is, as much as I hate to admit it, Minaya has put together a soft team and the Phillies are just harder and more aggressive than us.
Everyone constantly gets on Beltran’s soft play, or Reyes’ dancing, or Delgado’s loafing. Even Wright is considered homosexual by some. We’re soft, lets face it. The Phillies have a lot of harder players. Guys like Myers, Rollins, Utley, Lidge. They play like men and not like women like the Mets do. About the only ballsy player we have is Putz now. Minaya is soft and hes putting together a soft team.
This new guy Kielty, hes harder, but he doesnt fit in to the soft culture Minaya has invented for this team so he probably wont even make the team.
We just need a harder team, thats all. We’re jsut too soft.
yeah, women are weak and need babying! yeah! let’s all us tough guys grab our nuts!
You have got to be kidding me. Your generalization of an entire gender – both of them – is just ludicrous.
All men are big, tough guys? All woman are big babies?
How old are you anyway?
While it is clearly Mike Pelfrey in that picture, he looks as though he’s channeling John Maine.
i hope him && Maine really feed off each other this season && help make each other better
Yeah and same goes for Johan and Ollie. Ollie can definitely benefit from Johan
That’s right, the 2 whites and 2 latinos, because we all know it just wouldn’t be possible for Pelfrey and Santana to “feed off each other”
Wow.. that was funny
“feed off each other”…
He could have meant the fact that it was 2 RH and 2 LH? Stop being so PC, LOL.
what i meant was that they are bestfriends && youm know.. both are righties…
just like OLLIE && JOHAN are lefties… && both hispanic which makes comunication a little better no?
meant nothing in terms of racism…
There’s nothing racist about it. If you communicate better and have same cultures, it’s quite possible that you can be good friends.
But I meant to say that Ollie needs to learn from Johan. In fact Maine, Pelf and everyone in pitching staff needs “feed off” from Johan
if everyone in this pitching staff had his “warrior mentality” we’d be unstoppable
I was just kidding, I know you didn’t mean anything prejudiced by it. In fact I do think those 2 separate pairings have connected in the past – Maine and Pelfrey are sure to be the key points to the rotation this year, as with solid performances from both it will undoubtedly be among the best in the bigs. We know what we’re getting from Santana and although sometimes it drives us crazy, we know Ollie’s going to have some stellar outings and produce a pretty solid line at season’s end. Big Pelf we need you to be The Man this year no doubt.
couldn’t agree more agony, they need to feed off each other, all of them, if they can all push each other and be there for each other, hopefully will help them
I still get a good chuckle when I think of those guys golfing together (resulting in the cart crash and Pelfrey wearing that helmet to workouts), but I do appreciate that they’re bonding.
Just be healthy
Santana, Pelfrey, Perez ,Maine………is that the likely order as of now?
I still think Redding gets the 5th but Livan may steal it with Redding the long man. Regardless he has a MLB deal so he is on the roster
I think Stokes who is out of options is the logical replacement for Sanchez……..good thing their will be alot of veteran call ups available at AAA. I assume they will all accept deals if not released
On Hot Dogging and celebrating, anyone
see that Cuba-Aussie game last night?
Fidels boys were over the top.Having to be
warned by the umps atleast 4 times.
Yesterday was my first chance to really see
all the games on in full and while I dont like
the idea of the tourney,the baseball was great. Played on a very high level.
Also,I’ve been kind anti-Cubs all spring.
Don’t like their offseason moves,anyone
else think what happened could hurt
Marmol this year?
i think the cubs made some really questionable moves… so i wouldnt be surprised if they fell off the planet this year.
Zambrano keeps getting worse
Harden is always on the brink of falling apart
Lilly while consistent isnt getting any better
Soriano cant stay healthy
Derosa was a BIG LOSS
Bradley cant stay healthy
Lee cant find his power stroke
Marmol as a first year closer is a ? tho i think hell be great
Heilman as a set-up man?
Huge contract to Dempster after 1 good season and Fukudome playing CF.
Yeah, I usually dont believe in things like curses BUT with the Cubs?!
I just cant see how so many think they are the
best team in the NL.
I actually think they have missed their window of opprotunity.
But even with all that, if they get Peavy, they’ll be the team to beat in NL
Still see that happening? I am thinking maybe the RSox end up with him.
I think that Cub team could end up being
a complete mess like last yrs Tiger team
that everyone loved.Sweet Lou & Bradley
AND Fukudome,like you said Dempster,
no Derosa,Harden always hurt AND now
paid. I dont see how they’re more likely
to win the NL then us or the phillies.
Haven’t followed all that closely to Peavy thing. But my understanding was that once Cubs have new owners, they’ll pursue him.
It’ll be very interesting to see Peavy going to BoSox though.
I think the WBC is a great idea but it needs to be moved to a different spot on the calendar. For major leaguers to be getting into real, competitive game when they just reported to ST is ridiculous. It’s why half the guys don’t even want to play. You either:
a) do what hockey does for the olympics, and stop the season for 2 weeks. Baseball is so entrenched in tradition, though, that I can’t even conceive of a 2 week hiatus in late July (or at the all star break in early July) for the WBC
b) more likely, make the WBC in December. There are enough domed stadiums in the USA/other countries to surely make this work, you give the pros a solid month off (and 2 months off for most players, on non-playoff teams), and you enable enough rest time for afterwards. You also give the fans a solid scoop of great baseball during the offseason and people will get pumped. I suppose it presents a problem for free agency, guys getting injured – but at the same time a free agent could play his way to a new contract (like Pedro’s trying to do).
I say make the WBC in December, it would be smarter
I have been saying January, Novemeber or December would be fine as well. My thing is the players are currently being paid by their team to perform and part of that performance is in ST.
TRS you know my feelings on this.
I will say i have been watching the games this time around and the overall concept for this idea is just so amazing for teams and countries like the Neatherlands. I really think they need to figure it out better, and make the rules stricter.
I also don’t like timing. I agree with Shut down baseball for 2-3 weeks mid season every 4 years. That i won’t have a problem with. Or at the end of the season (after World Series)
If they do that,i’m tellin”ya half the guys dont show up.Like w/the NFL pro bowl.
I dont like the whole idea but again the
baseball has been great.
I still dont see MLBs angle in this though
because outside of the USA/Canada game
they’re drawing 10/12,000 to these games.
Hey Fong—Listening to Whitey Ford Sings the Blues and it is EXCELLENT!! Thanks for the heads up on Everlast. I have always loved the song What It’s Like, but had no idea who it was…I really love discovering new music, which gets harder and harder with all the stuff I have, and I don’t know how the hell I missed out on this for 10 years!
Thanks man!
Cool man,his new one is “letters from the
garden of stone”which is great.includes
Folsom prison blues& Saving Grace as well
as 3or4 others which are top shelf.
Kinda grown up hip hop,if you will.
Yeah, will probably get that one next. And yes, he is more grown-up hip-hop…he does make me think of a more acoustic, eclectic, thoughtful and grown-up Eminem somewhat.
Exactly!, I couldn’t come up w/the proper
term.
I have the same problem man.
I covered 6 states for the company I was
most recently working for and sometimes
would drive as much as 4 hrs in each direction,never listening to anything but my own CDs and AM radio.I have about a thousand CDs and am always looking for
something new but frankly most of the artists
now a days are pretty weak.
Well I think MLB is trying to internationalize the sport and make it the next WorldCup.
Having them after the season makes no sense when people will be sick of baseball and you have NFL.
Outside of US, many countries actually care for WBC. It’s not as big as WorldCup, but it has a potential to get pretty big IF done right.
I understand that BUT isnt baseball as
international as can be already?
I don’t think people are sick of baseball after the season ends, and the NFL is only once a week. The fact that other countries care more about the WBC than America doesn’t matter – that’s the case in any sport’s international competition whether it’s in January, July or December. I think for the sake of the games they should change the date. I’m not even going to bother researching it but there are a ton of top notch guys who aren’t playing in the WBC. The ones who are playing are coming off 5 month offseasons and aren’t even in playing shape. It has potential to be a great tournament as baseball is popular in so many countries, but nobody cares when MLB is almost underway.
Well, maybe you and I don’t get sick of baseball, but I’m sure a lot of casual fans will.
I agree that March isn’t the best timing, but regardless when they play WBC, injuries will always get blamed.
I think MLB should work more like what Europe is doing with Soccer. MLB should branch out their franchises to Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Interesting idea but how would teams play each other across seas?
As I think it over, the best time to have the WBC would be during the season. Just extend the all-star break to 2 weeks and have the tournament. You don’t have to worry about free agency because it’s in the middle of the season. You have not one other major sport being played during July so it’ll receive full attention and players will be in mid-season form for it. I believe the plan is for the WBC to be held every 2 years but that may be over doing it . How about every 3 years? Anyone? CMON! I’m an active participant on metsblog I need to have my voice heard
Big Pelf wins, over under 13.
What say you?
I’d say over. I think he can get 15 wins this season
Over.
Over!!
Over. He got victimized by a shoddy bullpen almost as much as Santana did.
Agreed! I got him at about 15/16-10,220ip,
3.5ish ERA.
I got some money on the over. If he’s healthy I think he can hit 13 for a push and maybe more for the win.
indeed,he won 13 last yr despite a bad start,
being trapped under peterson for the 1st half
and having a horrible BP behind him.
Santana wins, over under 32
Ha!, Well under BUT not by much!
mrBill aka DWright says:
March 11, 2009 at 10:49 am
This says it all. The Mets choked while the Phillies came through”
MRBILL.. HUMBLE DAY FOR ME.. I WON’T CONCUR ON NO CHOKE AT LEAST FOR A WEEK..
Completely understandable Alex. Take your time and come back when you are ready…
man.. talk about teams letting me down,
2007 METS
2007-2008 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
2008 METS
2009 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TEAM
Man…
Alex, I dunno how you survive jajajajajajaja…
but you do know that the DR choking is not related to the Mets, right? You need time to mourn but i am confident you’ll be back…. :D
LMAO..
tell me about it, and to be honest i am not humble at ALL.. i rub it in ppl’s face when we winning, but i have taken a beaten the past few years..
i am a realist as i said before, i call things for what it is.
This is the difference between you and most people here……You accept the mets and the DR choked….. most people here cannot admit it the Mets did.
I freely admit they did choke in 2007, although I don’t enjoy constantly discussing it. It’s the idea that they choked in 2008 that I find unfair, considering the time starters missed to injury and the depths of the roster they had to reach.
No doubt Grave. The Mets had a huge choke job in 2007. But to say that they did in 2008 does not give the Phillies enough credit. As they showed by winning the WS they were clearly the better team. They just happen to have an off couple of weeks that allowed the Mets to get back into competition. You have to be the best team in order to coke.
As they showed by winning the WS they were clearly the better team”
the real, were the 2006 st louis cardinal the better team?? of course they were coz they won it all, but on paper were they any better than us?? think not, but they show fight and we buckle..
This is the difference between you and most people here……You accept the mets and the DR choked….. most people here cannot admit it the Mets did”
thanks Mrbill.. i call it for what it is, it may sound ludacris but that’s how i was raised and always been, straight up person, i love the mets but they like other team got flaws, but i caould care less about other team so i put my team on blast if the team needs to be..
alex all I ask is that you pick your moments to “invoke the choke” more carefully now that there is a choke for others to throw back at you. I know you’re a good Met fan, but I feel like now you REALLY now what it’s like to hear about it all the time, so that maybe you understand better why some of us react so strongly against it when you bring it up.
grave,
if u say that to me, it won’t bother me at all, our #3 hitter stunk (both in the clutch and overall) and our manager was clu-e-le-ss to say the least, i call it for what it was.. a ch-o-ke job.. is ok to get at me grave..
I have a lot of respect for you alex, and I’m not the type to pick at other people’s wounds unless they really offend and insult me, and you have not done that, ever.
I have to tell you, about a minute after the DR/Netherlands game ended last night I came to metsblog and posted something like “the next time alex mentions ‘choke’ I’m going to remind him of this.” It seems pretty fair to me, and if I understand you correctly, you agree.
lmao, hey grave,
if alex cora gets a double i will allow ppl to get on me, i can take a beaten coz i am not humble at all.. but i am a realist as i said before, i call things for what it is, this is bigger upset/choke job that that patriots giants SB game..
I am a lifelong Met and Giant fan, so I prefer ‘upset.’ Tom Brady spent a lot of time on his back that evening, I’m sure he was pretty upset. I’m out for a while, Lets Go Mets!
Never helps to have Reyes go 1/9 either. Hanley was 2/8. Looks like the both choked.
Remember I really like Reyes but you have got to start admiting that he has choked even more than Wright over the years.
i agree, and that’s why i said he’s the bets mets player becoz as he goes they go.. wright had better number in sept yet we didn’t go anywhere becoz reyes struggle..
O Gracias A Dios!
lmao…
FU phillies
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