Comments on: Report: Sandy Alderson nixed talk of Mike Pelfrey becoming Mets’ closer in 2012 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 26 May 2013 01:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin S. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182548 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:32:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182548 Actually not true when used as an adjective.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quality?show=1&t=1314034289

]]> By: Charles Gates http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182528 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:55:31 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182528 “Quality Starter.” EVERY starter is a quality starter. Some are just of bad quality, some are of average quality and some are of superior quality.

Sorry, Quirks Of The English Language Police.

]]> By: Charles Gates http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182517 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:45:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182517 Agreed. Starters aren’t confident beings by their very nature.

]]> By: aronmantoo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182492 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:24:43 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182492 I really don’t think Mike has the mind set to be a closer, for one thing a closer has to have confidence in himself. I don’t believe mike does

]]> By: Kevin S. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182422 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:48:41 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182422 Points for trying to work in a PB reference, but Pelfrey is a quality starter. People quite often dismiss the value of a league-average player, but since becoming a full-time starter in ’08, Pelfrey’s been more or less a league-average starter giving the team close to 200 innings/year. For a cost controlled player, that’s valuable, and a good chunk of that value would be destroyed by making him a one-inning reliever.

]]> By: missthedayswhenwedidnthavetologin http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182414 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:42:55 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182414 Quality?

]]> By: proudlycanadian http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182404 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:34:12 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182404 Good point Kevin. Starters are more valuable than closers.

]]> By: Kevin S. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/22/report-sandy-alderson-nixed-talk-of-mike-pelfrey-becoming-mets-closer-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-182394 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:23:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=80520#comment-182394 And this is why Sandy Alderson is the first glimpse of light way down at the end of the tunnel for New York. Glad they’re not wasting a quality starter like that because of reactionism while playing out the string in a lost season.

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