Mike Pelfrey

Mike Pelfrey
New York Mets - No. 34
Pitcher
Born: January 14, 1984 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio
Strikes: Right	Throws: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
July 7,  2006  at the New York Mets
MLB statistics (until 2010)
Win-loss	43-41
ERA	4.31
Strikeouts	388
Teams
New York Mets (since 2006)
Awards
He is the Mets player who went without an opposing home run against most batter in a row (243)

Michael Alan "Mike" Pelfrey (born January 14, 1984 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio ) is an American baseball player in Major League Baseball . Pelfrey has been playing for the New York Mets since making his MLB debut and is in the pitching position . He belongs to the group of so-called power pitchers. These are players who get a particularly large number of strikeouts .

Career

During his training, Mike Pelfrey played at Wichita State University in Wichita . In the 2005 MLB Draft , he was elected in the first round by the New York Mets. Half a year of full contract negotiations followed. Pelfrey was considered one of the greatest talents and wanted to be paid above average for a rookie. On January 10, 2006, the parties finally agreed on a contract. The player was awarded a four-season contract that earned him a $ 3.5 million signature bonus in addition to a fixed salary of $ 5.3 million.

After a short period in the minor league teams of the Mets, he made his debut in the National League on July 7, 2006 , where he secured his first MLB win in a 17: 3 win against the Florida Marlins . In his first season in the MLB, Pelfrey was used four times.

Since 2007

Before the 2007 season, Pelfrey convinced in spring training and got a place in the starting rotation . However, he then showed poor performance at the start of the season. He failed to win and lost five times with an ERA of 6.53. He was then sent back to the minor league, but came back quickly. At the end of the season there was a win-loss of 3: 8.

The 2008 season was the first in which Mike Pelfrey was able to convince with a positive win-loss. With 32 bets he got 13 wins, which were offset by 11 losses . At the beginning of the season he was placed as the fifth starter and also delivered outstanding individual games for the first time during the season. On June 11, 2008, he was about to pitch a full game. In the match against the Arizona Diamondbacks , he stood 8 innings on the mound and only allowed one run and caused two walks .

On July 14, 2008, he finally pitched his first full game against the Atlanta Braves , where he made 108 throws. In 2008, Pelfrey was first voted National League Player of the Week.

At the start of the 2009 season on April 13th, Pelfrey was honored to be the first starting pitcher in the new Citi Field . In the 5-6 defeat of the Mets, however, he allowed five opposing runs and started a weak season. At the end of 2009 he had a negative season record with a result of 10:12 and an ERA of 5.03.

Pelfrey's best season so far was 2010 . Especially at the beginning of the season he excelled with 10: 1 wins. Although he slacked off in the second half of the season, he ended up with 15 wins and 9 losses. He scored a very good 113 strikeouts with 204 pitched innings.

Change of club

On 20 December 2012, which gave Minnesota Twins announced that they Pelfrey for a one-year contract worth 4 million USD pledged. This move to the American League gave Pelfrey his worst in his 8 professional seasons as a pitcher. He finished the season with 5-13 (wins-losses) and an ERA of 5.19.

Web links

Commons : Mike Pelfrey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  ESPN  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  The Baseball Cube  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Pelfrey Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com
2. ↑ Twins pitcher Mike Pelfrey ends season on high note ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )