Marmol. I like what I see

Obviously it's a very small sample size, but I really like what Marmol has
shown so far.

He appears to have excellent control. Even his balls don't miss by much
(insert pun here).

6 Ks, 3 hits and no walks in 4 IP. 97MPH fastball and a very nice
slider/curve.

Eric Margheim wrote:
> Obviously it's a very small sample size, but I really like what Marmol has
> shown so far.
>
> He appears to have excellent control. Even his balls don't miss by much
> (insert pun here).
>
> 6 Ks, 3 hits and no walks in 4 IP. 97MPH fastball and a very nice
> slider/curve.
>
>

For those slightly interested, but not enough to look it up,
at West Tenn this year, Marmol had

11 starts, 58 innings, 2.33 ERA
42 hits, 25 walks 67 strikeouts ONE HR yielded


The innings per start seems low, but no one on that staff is
averaging six innings per start so I think it is just a case of
not wearing out the arms of young pitchers.

The control was not quite as good as he has shown to date in the majors.
The HR number is great - even for West Tenn. Everyone on the staff has
given up at least two except Marmol, the closer Rapada, and guys with
ten or fewer innings.

And only Marmol, Pignatiello, and two guys with very few innings
have more K's than IP.

ray heitmann