[EmpireWF]

Jayson Stark of ESPN mentions in his latest column that the Mets are now willing to part with touted pitching prospect Mike Pelfrey in a "big deal."

However, Stark also cites a baseball official for one team as saying, "To be honest, I don't know if I'd take Pelfrey right now, the way he's throwing. I think he's been [Scott] Boras-ized. I'm not seeing the same stuff I saw before. And he's showing a stubbornness that rubs me the wrong way, like [the Boras operation] has convinced him that their way is the better way. I'm seeing this with his guys all over now, and it's becoming a problem all over the industry."


I hope that's not a sentiment around the league, but it does seem like Pelfrey is not as highly thought of as he was when the Mets first drafted in a couple of years ago.