I am very upset, like most Mets fans are. I like Pelfrey, he’s a good Steve Trachsel type starter. I just don’t like to read these unrealistic expectations about him. He’s simply not a top of the rotation guy like the Mets would have you believe.

We need Roy Halladay. As I mentioned in another post, we have wasted five out of that seven year deal we gave Beltran. Here we are putzing around with bottom of the rotation guys who the Mets would have you believe are top of the rotation guys.

They are on the verge of pulling the same scam with Niese who was never even a top 50 prospect in his Mets tenure.

The Mets want to pretend Pelf is huge because they screwed up big! Tony B and Omar dropped the ball! They played Selig’s slot game and passed on Ellsbury, J. Bruce, McCutchen, Rasmus, Maybin, Mayberry and took Pelf because he was singable. Pelf was a deep reach. The picks leading up to Pelf were Upton, R. Zimmerman, Braun, Romero and Tulowitski.

The Mets want to convince themselves that they shared in what many scouts called the deepest draft of first round mega prospects in this decade.

The Mets drafted nine and instead of taking one of the big bonus babies, they had a top ten pick but chose a second round talent. But in the end, you are what you are. And Pelfrey is bottom of the rotation guy who will have one or two 17 win seasons in his prime.

Last season, I felt as though Mike Pelfrey exceeded my expectations. He was a number five pitcher who basically performed like a number 3 pitcher. After a poor showing in a limited appearance in 2007, he pitched to a 3.72 ERA and gave us 200 innings in his first full season. Unlike hitters who are more prone to a sophomore drop-off, pitchers usually continue to improve or stay at the same level.

Pelfrey has an ERA of 4.99 which ranks him in the bottom five of pitchers with 100 or more innings pitched. He has been wildly inconsistent. He is throwing more pitches per inning pitched which is the one area a good pitcher will show improvement in his second year.

He has also shown a decline in strikeout rate and velocity which is a little troubling and makes one wonder if there is any troth to the Verducci effect. Righthanders are hitting .289 against him. (.245 LY)His 1.50 WHIP is also a concern.

He went from a moderate pitchers park to an extreme pitchers park and yet his numbers all took a turn for the worse. He also benefited from a bullpen that allowed practically none of his inherited runners to score.

His hits per nine innings pitched went up by 1.00.

There is not one positive indicator for Pelfrey this season.

He has not pitched 8 innings or more once this season. Last season he had two complete games and two other games in which he pitched 8 innings. They accounted for 4 of his 13 wins.

He has the makings of a career bottom of the rotation starter. He cannot control his number one pitch, his sinker. His other pitches are below average.

He may be a number two pitcher for the Pirates or Royals, but for a team like the Mets, he should be residing in the number 4 spot at best.