WHAT IF, THIS TALK OF PELF DEMOTED TO PEN IS MERELY A COUNTER MOVE FOR ARBI HEARING?
IT CERTAINLY WOULD BE MORE DIFFICULT FOR BORAS TO ARGUE A SALARY INCREASE IS WARRANTED FOR A PITCHER THE TEAM HAS POSITIONED FOR DEMOTION & TO A POSITION(PEN) MUCH MORE CONDUCIVE TO SALARIES UNDER $4M

WHILE THAT KIND OF UBER STRATYEGIC THINKING WOULD BE BEYOND PHILLIPS,DUQUETTE,MINAYA I CAN EASILY BELIEVE A MARONE CORPS OFFICER CAN STRATEGIZE AROUND SUCH AN OBVIOUS MINEFIELD. WHAT DOES ANYBODY THINK? PERHAPS THIS ‘CLOSER’ CONSIDERATION WAS MERELY USING TC TO SWERVE AROUND BORAS’ OBVIOUS BELLICOSE OBJECTIONS & TO GET PELF TO PUBLICLY ACQQUIRSCE TO THE NON SP CONCEPT, ONCE THE ARBI HEARING IS PAST, HOPEFULLY WITH THE ARBITOR CONDIDERING THE FUTURE EARNINGS OF A RELIEVER, NOT A SP, TEAM IS FREE TO USE HIM AS THEY WISH, #4,#5, WHATEVER.

1-2 (4 ND) 4.59 ERA, 1.48WHIP, now someone in the organization is asking he be considered for closer opening for 2012. IMO, that can only be Jeff, whose MLB knowledge &^ instincts are surpassed by his financial investment instincts
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2011/08/21/2011-08-21_ra_dickey_again_gets_little_support_as_mets_fall_apart_late_in_62_loss_to_milwau.html
what is DC unwilling to pat with Ollie?(lmao)

I feel that Pelfrey will one of those surprise off season moves by SA.

The fact that through arbitration he might get 6 million after a season like this is part of what is wrong with baseball and the “guaranteed increases” through arbitration.

Why can’t the current system, dreamed up and implemented by agents and players union, be changed because the current parameters used to justify a guaranteed raise of at least $6 million for a player with the history of Pelfrey is totally in the players favor as well as the agent.

I have liked Pelfrey and enjoyed when he had that streak last year early but he has allowed his mental approach to control how he pitches and now in his 6th year with Mets he needs to move on, go somewhere that might be less stressful for him.

I say SA releases him or trade him for some minor league players or ask him to take the same amount or a bit of raise, not 6 million.
I’m hoping that SA makes his mark on this team, as he did with Ollie and Luis, by telling Pelfrey and Boras to take their wares somewhere else cause the money they want can be used to fill another need.

Sorry Pelf, I thought you were going to be part of a up and coming rotation but your excuses and explanations are falling on deaf ears.

ONE MUST INSTINCTIVELY KNOW BORAS WILL BE “OUT FOR BLOOD” SINCE HE SURRENDERED HIS CLIENT’S ARBI RIGHTS BY MEEKLY ACCEPTING THE “MODEST” 3.9M TENDER FROM ALDERSON LAST OFFSEASON, “THE HONEYMOON EILL BE TURNED INTO A CONTESTED DIVORCE, THE MOMENT THE ARBITRATIONM DATE IS SELECTED. U CAN TAKE IT TO THE BANK! I CONTEND LAST YR’S ACCEPTANCE WAS A BORAS ‘SETUP’ TO CLAIM A BIGGER THAN CURRENT PERFORMANCE AWARD IS NECESSARY TO COUNTER THE UNDER MARKET PRICE OWNERSHIP PROFFERED HIS 15G WINNING CLIENT & STAFF “ACE” BY TEAM DESIGNATION. IT WOULDN’T SUPRISE ME ONE IOTA, IF BORAS, HIMSELF, WASN’T THE PLANTER OF THE “SHOW CONFIDENCE” SEED.

I PERSONALLY ‘SUSPECT’ BORAS OF HAVING A PERSONAL VEWNDETTA AGAINST THE METS BECAUSE OF HOW DIFFICULT IT HAS BEEN TO PORTRAY US AS A MYSTERY BIG MARKET INTERSESTED THREAT DURING HIS NEGOTIATIONS FOR HIS OTHER CLIENTS. BY THE METS’ PRIMARILY ACTING MORE MID-SM MARKETISH FOR DECADES THEY’VE REDUCED BORAS’ MARKETPLACE AS WELL AS CONSTRICTED HIS ABILITY TO COERCE MORE OUT OF TARGETED TEAMS ONCE THE LIKES OF NYY,BOS,LAA,LAD ARE ELIMINATED.
GOING BACK TO ’05′s OFFERING OF BELTRAN TO NYY FOR LESS, BORAS’ SUBSEQUENT ACTIONS HAVE BEEN POIGNANTLY TAERGETED TO HURTING OR EMBARAASSING NYM OWNERSHIP. PELFREY WILL BE ONE MORE OPORTUNITY, AS WAS HIS WAITING FOR BREWS TO BECOME THE TEAM OF RECORD ON THE SUBJECT OF ELIMINATING K-ROD’s DEADLY OPTION, I BELIEVE HE DELIBERATELY WAITED FOR NYM TO PULL THE TRIGGER BEFORE HE MADE THE DEAL UNNECESSARY BY ELIMINATING THE OPTION AS IT MUST HAVE BEEN HIS DESIGN FRONM THE GET GO AS HE NETS NOTHING FROM THE HIGH PRICED OPTION ACTIVATION & STANDS TO EARN FULL COMMISSION ON FRANKIE’S SUBSEQUENT CONTRACT COMMENCING IN ’12 FOR MORE YHJAN A TOTAL OF 17.5M GUARANTEED. THE ONLY TRUSTWORTHY BORAS CHARACTYERISTICS ARE HE WILL HURT US & HE WILL WIN IN ARBITRATION AVOIDING BOTH OF THOSE OUTCOMES MUST BE PARAMOUNT WHEN CONSIDERING WHAT TO DO ABOUT “THE BIG MISTAKE”

THE TRICK & ONLY MOVE I SEE TO AVOID THIS SALARY ARMAGEDDON IS TO EITHER OUTRIGHT RELEASE PELF ON SEPT. 30 OR ACCEPT A MEDIOCRE PKG OF SUSPECTS COME OCT 15.
EITHER AVOID THE HEARING ROOM BY SUBSTITUTING A COMPETITOR OR ALLOW BORAS TO TAKE HIM TO MARKET AS A FREED AGENT.

IT’S APPARENTLY OBVIOUS, NAMING PELF #1 WAS AN ELIMINATION PLOY, ELIMINATING “CONFIDENCE IN HIM” AS AN EXCUSE FOR HIS LOW SELFCONFIDENCE; FEW HAVE EVER POINTED OUT TC’s PERSONAL REEVALUATION OF HIM AS #3 WHEN HE RESTRUCTURED THE ROTATION AFTER THE BREAK. THE MOST ALARMING FACT IS PELF’S INABILITY TO OVERPOWER BACKENDERS IN HIS MATCHUPS HENCE AS HIS POST BREAK RECORD IS HORENDOUS, 1 MAYBE 2 Ws.
WHILE, ROTATION POSITIONING ALTERS YOUR SCHEDULED OPPONENT AS RIGORS OF COMPETITION CREATE SCEDULING ALTERATIONS PITCHERS EARMARKED FOR A CERTAIN ROTATIONAL SPOT, MOSTLY BEGIN THEIR FIRST FEW TURNS OPPOSED BY THEIR COMPETITIVE COUNRTERPART 1 Vs 1,2 Vs 2, ETC AS INJURIES & SUBSTITUTIONS OCCUR MORE LIKELY OPPONENTS TEND TO REMAIN FRONENDER Vs FRONTENDER & BACK Vs BACK AS A #1 PELF COULD EXPECT TO MOST OFTEN FACE EITHER THE OPPONENT 1 OR 2, SOMETIMES CATCHING A BREALK FACING #5; BUT AS #3 HE’D RARELY GET #1 MORE OFTEN OPPOSING 2,3,4. HIS PROCILVITY TOWARD SELF COMBUSTION HAS UNDENIABLY ERODED HIS EFFECTIVENESS AS A MLB PITCHER, IMO. AS HE’S MOST SUSCEPTIBLE IN FIRST INNINGS PRECLUDING HIS CANDIDACY FOR RELIEF WORK.

IT’S PROPER FOR PELF TO GET HIS NAME CHALKED INTO THE COLUMN OF MISJUDGED FIRST ROUNDERS ALONGSIDE PAUL WILSON,JAY PAYTON, TERRENCE LONG, SHAWN ABNER & A HOST OF OTHERS.

AS STAUSBURG & HARPER ARE NOW UNDERSCORING, THE VAGARIES OF CHOOSING CORECTLY WOULD BE A FORMIDABLE CHALLENGE FOR NOSTRADAMUS, CONSIDERING FLUSHING’S HISTRORICAL REFEERNCE THEIR PRIMARY ADVISOR MUIST BE HIS EVIL TWIN aka NOSTRA-DUMBASS.
GENERALLY IT PERFECTLY HIGHLIGHTS TYHE AGE OLD ARGUEMENT BETWEEN IMPROVING VIA FREE AGENCY Vs AMATEUR DRAFTING.
IT IS TIME TO ‘CUT BAIT’ ON THE VERY LAST BORAS CLIENT ON OUR 40, UNTIL HARVEY IS PROMOTED.

As the Scarecrow Said—”If I only had a Brain!”