In a spring season filled with nothing but news of the walking wounded, a story like this is tremendously welcome:
Following up on a strong first start last week against the Tigers, Pelfrey had his sinker working. He scattered just two hits in three scoreless innings of a 3-2 Grapefruit League victory over the Braves.
Mike Pelfrey, the Mets’ first-round pick in 2005, has had some difficult times in a few short stints in the majors the last two seasons but remains the team’s top pitching prospect — one still regarded well enough to keep him from being sent to Minnesota in the Johan Santana trade.
Pelfrey is, in many ways, the future of the organization — provided he lives up to his earlier billing. And if he does, and both John Maine and Oliver Perez continue their improvements, the Mets will go from having a solid rotation with a couple of aging pieces to having a dynamic one that is young and hard-throwing and unlike what we’ve been used to in Queens for a while.
The mix of lefties and righties, complemented by the aging, but savvy Pedro Martinez and whatever Orlando Hernandez can still bring to the table, gives the Mets a deep rotation that could help save the bullpen — a major problem last year. The Mets need the starters to regularly go into the seventh inning to limit the innings of specialists like Pedro Feliciano and to set the rest of the bullpen roles.
Of course, Duaner Sanchez eventually reclaiming the eighth inning will have a huge impact, as will the status of Carlos Delgado, Moises Alou and Carlos Beltran.
But Pelfrey’s work so far is incredibly heartening.
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Hank Kalet 
Lets go Mets !