Doesn’t make any sense to me. You would think that a big-money team would be conservative with its prospects, if anything. Is it a Minaya thing? Did he do this when he was with Montreal, too?

has no control or quality secondary pitches (no matter how often he throws them). He’s got a 1.60 WHIP, and walks nearly as many guys as he strikes out. He’s lucked himself into a decent ERA so far, but anybody who thinks he can keep that up without drastic changes in his peripherals is only kidding themselves.

I noticed the same thing, that when he started using his 4 seam more in late May, he got much better results. Getting the first strike with the 4 seamer, then working the 2 seam in more. At least he can get a called strike one now with the 4 seam, which was his biggest problem in my opinion.

lets face it, his slider sucks. Mostly becuase he can’t throw it for a strike, but also because his 2 seamer breaks more than the slider (see the Pfx stats). I have yet to see the change up for a strike.

I am rooting for him, and intrigued to see if the previous post is true that he may start playing with the curve.

Pelfrey has progressed – from a below-average pitcher to major league average.

I’ve watched a bunch of his starts. He’s throwing his 4 seamer early in the count and its well spotted. His 2 seamer has a ton of movement still and is staying lower in the zone. His slider is better, but still not good by any means.

Right now, he’s at least a league average starter right now, irregardless of his BB/K rate. He’s getting an enormous amount of groundouts. The problem remains though that his off-speed stuff remains so inconsistent that they are merely “show me” pitches.

In his last start in Colorado (which i watched). His slider always was off the plate to righties and rarely did they offer at it. But, he was still using the slider as a set up for his hard sinker, which made the sinker slightly more effective. And yes, he did walk a ton of guys that day, but the strike zone was inconsistent (which you could see on the faces of both pitchers).

Pelfrey is getting better and more confident, but he still needs to refine his off-speed stuff to be anything more than league average.

32 2/3rds, 31 hits, 10 earned runs, no homers allowed, 20 Ks and 13 BBs.

The k rate is slightly low. The k/bb not quite there. Take off 2 BB and add 2Ks and you have the makings of an ace.

I think folks are being a little k rate and k/bb obsessive. Historically, there were TONs of pitchers who used to get the job done for years with horrible rates. And acknowledging their value and predictive capabilities,. Actually, Pelfrey’s numbers are becoming fairly Wang like.

Or, uh-oh, Daniel Cabrera like. This year’s low K version. Where is the guy who kept touting cabrera’s break through this year in the Fan posts?

Anyway, Pelfrey is obviously a work in progress, but to me he definitely has the stuff to ultimately be an ace. It took Ryan and Koufax years to harness their stuff. Randy Johnson too. Not saying he has their stuff, but he is getting better, learning to handle adversity. Give it some time.