Puzzling Remarks
Often in life we have to look to minor actions to find victory. With the Florida Marlins slumping horribly in August, finishing the month below .500 and not winning two games in a row at all during the month, you need to look to the small things for victory. On the next to last day of the month, New York Mets’ pitcher Mike Pelfrey provided the Marlins a victory with some puzzling, if not all together stupid remarks.
During a 4-3 loss to the Marlins on August 30th, Pelfrey plunked Marlins’ outfielder Cody Ross with 2 strikes against him. Normally one of two things happens, the benches clear as the plunked player charges the mound and the opposing teams clear the benches in a show of force, or the plunked player calmly takes his base. Pelfrey decided to stoke the flames a little and comment that he “did Ross a favor” by plunking him with 2 strikes against him.
Baseball is full of guys that run their mouth, but this event is quite unusual. Typically you see experienced and/or All Star caliber players run their mouths to the media about other teams and/or players. Pelfrey is none of these things. In his 3rd season in the majors, Pelfrey is in his first season in which he has started all the games he’s appeared in, and while he has a decent record at 13-8, his career record is 18-17 with a 4.34 ERA, far from All Star. To top it off, Pelfrey is 0-3 against the Marlins this season in 4 starts (his one no decision was still a loss for the Mets) and has an ERA of 7.91, so he really has no standing to talk smack about the Marlins in general. As for Ross, he is 3-9 with a double, triple, and 3 RBIs against Pelfrey. It would appear to me that Ross is in no need of “charity” bases from Pelfrey, he’s more than capable of taking them from him on his own.
Pelfrey should perhaps wait a few more years, make sure he is going to actually become something in the MLB before he goes running his mouth about a team and player that have his number this season. He does himself no favors either as the Marlins will no doubt eagerly anticipate their next meeting with Pelfrey.
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