Posts Tagged ‘ Fastball ’

Pelfrey Comes Up Aces

Jul 9th, 2008 | By Joe McDonald | Category: New York Mets, Top Stories

FLUSHING, NY - Back in Spring Training if anyone thought Mike Pelfrey would be the Mets best pitcher come the All-Star break, he or she would have been laughed at and thought to be a kook.
Not even Pelfrey himself would have figured he would be this good.
Yet, there he was at Shea Stadium tonight mowing [...]



Mets Need More From Santana

Jun 23rd, 2008 | By Joe McDonald | Category: Featured Stories

FLUSHING, NY - It’s Johan Santana’s job to win games. His given profession is to throw strikes and get batters out with his changeup. Nowhere in his job description does it say he has to prove Hank Steinbrenner wrong.



Mets Select Steven Register in Rule V Draft

Dec 6th, 2007 | By Joe McDonald | Category: NYSR Blog

They held the Rule V Draft today and the Mets took AA closer Steven Register from the Rockies system
Going to be 25 next season, Register went 1-3 with 37 saves and a 4.03 ERA last season in 61 games.
The Mets have to hold him on the Major League roster all season or send him back [...]



Nice Comeback, But….

May 25th, 2007 | By Joe McDonald | Category: NYSR Blog

Am I the only one not happy with the win tonight? It looked like the Mets were going to run their way out of the game. First, Paul Lo Duca gets tossed out at third. David Wright doesn’t run back a trickler, which rolled back fair, then Carlos Delgado gets thrown out at second when he [...]