Here’s something I said on the Happy Recap radio show Sunday night:

I think you’ve got to bring Pelfrey back, and I know that frustrates Mets fans to hear. Because it’s frustrating to watch him pitch, and I feel the same way. He’s not, you know, he’s not great. And he doesn’t have a second pitch so he’s not really able to get a lot of swings and misses; he yields a lot of contact which I think is why you see so much fluctuation in his performance.

But I think the value in Pelfrey — and it’s one that really shouldn’t be understated — is he’s healthy. He stays healthy and throws 200 innings just about every year. And that’s not something you can easily find. And if you go about replacing him with the type of guys like Tim Redding, and Brian Lawrence, and the scrap-heap fifth starters, you wind up taxing the rest of your pitching staff a ton. And Pelfrey, as bad as he can be starting, he does have a ton of starts where it’s six or seven innings, three or four runs, and those are worth something.

If the Mets had, if Matt Harvey had been at Triple-A and Familia and Mejia and all those guys were ready to go — if this was next year and all those guys were still progressing — then sure, you cut bait on a guy like Pelfrey. But I think right now, the way the Mets need innings, they’re best suited bringing him back. And maybe if he’s pitching well and those guys are knocking on the door from Triple-A come the middle of the season, maybe then Pelfrey has some value to some contending team that needs a back-of-the-rotation starter and then you can flip him for something. I don’t think it would be wise to just let him walk in an arbitration year.

Here’s how at least one listener interpreted that:

ted berg seems to like pelf a lot……?