Defend the Indefensible: Mike Pelfrey

career K/9: 5.1
career WHIP: 1.5
career ERA+: 89
career earnings: $38.8m

credit where due: he's given up relatively few home runs. and he's big, so he must be a workhorse

i don't feel like any of this explains a 12-year career for a right-handed starter in the major leagues

At least 60 pitchers today would have been in the minor leagues in 1976.

Mike Pelfrey has started 251 games

Players with < 251 games started:

Ben Sheets
Chris Bosio
Sal Maglie
Erik Bedard
Mario Soto
Dizzy Dean

— Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud) July 27, 2017

but none of them were called 'Big Pelf'

rooting hard for him to beat Lester tonight