What, you thought the Mets weren’t going to come up with another stinker this year?
What bothered me most about last night was Mike Pelfrey. You know the offense is going to leave runners. It has all year. Another lousy job by the bullpen.
But, you would hope a prospect such as Pelfrey would string a few good ones together to build something.
9 Comments
We need the guys at Shea to start playing ” THE CURLY SHUFFLE”
It worked in the ‘80s!!!!!!!!!
Right know I’ll even settle for ” WHO LET THE DAWGS OUT!!!”
Tug We need help!!!!!!!! BELIEVE!!!!!!!
Does anyone have a black cat?
JD: Let’s say the Mets make it to the playoffs…they’re up by a run after 6 innings and whatever starting pitcher there is , is toast. Who do you trust in the bullpen to protect that lead? I know…I know..the answer is no one. That will be the one thing that will bite the Mets in the tush. Not to mention the continued disappointing play of Mr. Jose Reyes.
As bad as this prospect performance was last night, and for most of this season, a lesser prospect (one that they were shopping to every other team at the trade deadline) will be starting tomorrow making his first big league start with potentially a scant 1 game lead on first place.
If the Mets, god forbid fall out of forst place for the first time since may with this kid on the mound, it will serve Omar and Willie right. It would highlight there glaring failure since the off-season, there inability or fefusal to get younger and there insistence that they had enough pitching and not getting anything to fill the hole.
The 5th inning last night was very telling for Pelfrey. He gets 2 outs on 4 pitches. Then proceeds to walk the next two hitters and then gives up the 3R HR!! Extremely frustrating. It seems like the kid never has a plan on how to pitch to batters.
You know if the Mets even get to the playoffs, is there really any hope for them advancing? They are going to have to win alot of 10 to 8 ballgames, that seems certain.
John,
Would you say from your perspective at the stadium that Pelfrey looked strong for the first 4.2 innings? Why is there no thought of using him as the long man out of the bullpen? I can’t remember if earlier in the season, his struggles were early in the game of were in the middle innings as they seem to be lately. Any thoughts? Anybody?
To John in LA: I have been on the Pelfrey in the pen bandwagon all month.Both Willie and Omar say no, but they always say things that don’t turn out to be true. Right now I would take an inexperienced Pelfrey in the pen over Mota. The long man would be Maine or Perez if Hernandez is ready to pitch.-JD
Steve: The Mets pen reminds me of the prevent defense in football.
The only thing it prevents is winning.-JD
John,
Haven’t been around for a few days, hope you look back at these…..
What bugged me is since around Aug. 15 everybody has been saying use Pelfrey out of the pen. they’ve even hinted that they might and then they allowed the window to pass where they could test it out. Pelf looked great for three innings and then fell apart, sounds like a reliever to me.
I wonder if they’re afraid of what happened to Heilman, will happen to Pelfrey. Where they put him in the pen and he’s the most effective pitcher and suddenly three years go by and all you have out of your first rounder is a set-up man but he’s too important to give him a shot in the rotation.
offense still takes some blame as well, lead off hitter on base four straight innings against Matt Chico and you dont score. We have the lead or it’s closer different pitchers are in the game….