Mike Pelfrey

• New York Mets (since 2006)

• He is the Mets player who remained against most batters in a row without opposing Homerun (243 )

Michael Alan "Mike" Pelfrey ( born January 14, 1984 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio) is an American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball. Pelfrey has been playing his MLB debut for the New York Mets and acts on the position of the pitcher. It belongs to the group of so-called power pitcher. These are players who achieve particularly large number of strikeouts.

Career

During his training Mike Pelfrey played at Wichita State University in Wichita. In MLB Draft 2005, he was selected in the first round by the New York Mets. There was half a year full contract negotiations. Pelfrey was considered one of the greatest talents and wanted to be paid above average for a rookie. On 10 January 2006, the parties finally agreed on a contract. The player is awarded a contract for four seasons, in addition to a fixed salary of 5.3 million U.S. dollars secured him a bonus for signing in the amount of 3.5 million U.S. dollars.

After a brief period in the minor league teams of the Mets, he debuted on 7 July 2006 in the National League, where he secured his first MLB same -Win at 17:3 victory against the Florida Marlins. In his first season in the MLB Pelfrey came four times to use.

Since 2007

Before the 2007 Pelfrey convinced of Spring Training and got a place in the starting rotation. However, he then showed poor performance for the season opener. He could enter no victory, and recorded five defeats in an ERA of 6.53. He was then sent back to the minor league, but came back quickly. At the end of the season was a win- loss of 3:8 to book.

The 2008 season was the first in which Mike Pelfrey was able to convince with a positive win- loss. With 32 missions he scored 13 wins, which were offset by 11 Loss. At the start of the season he was placed as a fifth starter and delivered throughout the season for the first time outstanding individual games from. On 11 June 2008 he was about to pitch a complete game. In the match against the Arizona Diamondbacks, he stood eight innings on the mound and allowed only one run to and caused two walks.

On 14 July 2008 he finally pitched his first complete game then against the Atlanta Braves, where he made 108 saves. In 2008, Pelfrey was first elected to the National League Player of the Week.

For the season 2009 on Pelfrey has the honor to participate, the first starting pitcher in the new Citi Field on April 13. In the 5:6 defeat of the Mets he left, however, to five enemy runs and started as a weak season. He had with a score of 10:12 and an ERA of 5.03 again a negative record this season in late 2009.

The best-ever season of Pelfrey was 2010. Especially at the beginning of the season he was above 10:1 wins. Although he faded in the second half of the season, he was able to record at 9 Losses at the end of 15 wins. He succeeded in attaining very good 113 strikeouts in 204 innings pitched.