Monday, March 10, 2008
Pelfs Serving It Up
Marty Noble:
Like many young pitchers who seldom relied on changeups in their formative years, Pelfrey, 24, would open his glove wide when he reache
d in to grasp the ball deep in his right hand for the offspeed pitch -- and not do the same on other pitches. Dugout spies caught on to that in a New York minute. But worse, when Pelfrey initiated his delivery of a fastball, his tongue became visible.
Lol thats great. Just great. I like the way The Man at Mets Prospectus put it. Rick Peterson is someone who watches his pitchers like a hawk so how did he not see this? Opening your glove on a changeup is the biggest problem pitchers have so how did they not notice this? This is something a college player or even a little leaguer can pick up on. Oh well I guess that is what spring training is for, at least someone caught it, better late the never. Now this tongue situation is weird. This is mostly from a nervous habit that Pelfrey has so that might be hard to stop. It is something he has to work on a lot to get it to stop. We all have habits and we know we can't break them, but Pelfrey will need to because he is a pitcher who works of his fastball. Hopefully he fixes cause I want him to succeed. Pelfrey, Hughes, Chamberlian, and Kennedy all in New York at once would be amazing. That' 3 potential aces and one extremely solid middle of the rotation workhorse. Bright future ahead of us.
