mike pelfrey
Mike Pelfrey’s mind games
Four years have passed since Pelfrey, 38, announced his retirement from baseball. He opens up about the demons he battled while with the Mets and the lessons he wants to...
Pitcher's low profile kept Astros scandal from getting unearthed earlier
What if the 2017 postseason had begun with everyone on highest alert about the 2017 Astros’ chicanery? What if, to push it further, that October kicked off with, say, Houston’s...
One-time Mets super-prospect quietly says goodbye
In the end, Phil Hughes outlasted Mike Pelfrey. Pelfrey, the one-time stud Mets pitching prospect who was often compared with the Yankees' one-time stud pitching prospect, is retiring. After 12...
The emergency options for a suddenly depleted Mets rotation
In Joe Torre’s first spring training as Yankees manager, he was beset near daily with inquiries about how he was going to turn eight starter candidates into five. Revealing the...
The lesson from Tigers' (so far) disastrous free-agent binge
Sellers at last year’s trading deadline, the Tigers symbolically — and financially — declared that was the most temporary of detours in the offseason when it literally was business as...
Behind Mets' 1st Jay Bruce hunt: When Mike Pelfrey beat him out
A year and a day after Yoenis Cespedes played his first game with the Mets and sparked their 2015 run to the World Series, Jay Bruce became the latest outfielder...
Hondo has Twins
Slumping Hondo missed on Saturday night with the Cards, who were blanked in L.A. to inflate the dirty digits to 850 skinners. Sunday: Mr. Aitch will take another shot with...
Astros tank their way into playoff contender -- if they go for it
This was spring training 2014, the visitor’s dugout at Tradition Field. I was chatting with Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and attempting a tortured point: That if I were in charge...
Mike Pelfrey did not handle Twins demotion well
Mike Pelfrey wants no part of the bullpen, but with the way his time in Minnesota has gone, he's not in position to be making demands. The former Met lost...