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March 20, 2008

BP's Goldstein Looks At Yanks Bushers

Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus offers a "State of the Systems, AL East" today. An interesting item therein is Jeff Marquez. As Kevin writes:

Despite the fact that he won 15 games last year at Double-A, right-hander Jeff Marquez is a bit of a one-trick pony who gets a ton of groundballs with his plus sinker, but his below-average secondary stuff limits his ability to miss bats.

Tommy John does not agree. Via Screwballs two days ago:

SCREWBALLS: Any guys that you managed with the Staten Island Yankees that we should look out for?

TOMMY JOHN: Jeff Marquez. He throws hard...in the mid-ninties. He just has to find out what he has to do be successful. There's power and there is pitching. Throw hard but only as hard as you effectively can.

Me? I still see no reason why Marquez cannot be a Ramiro Mendoza 2.0...in theory, at the least.

Posted by WW Staff at March 20, 2008 12:55 PM

Comments

Ramiro Mendoza 2.0?

You hit that nail on the head with a jack hammer.

Thats exactly who Marquez is and how I think he is going to be.

He does have better secondary stuff then given credit for.

Posted by: Sonny M [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 20, 2008 04:14 PM

If you take away his struggles against the Met AA team in 2007.
I think his ERA was around 2.70. 22 years old with a 2.70 ERA in AA ball. I think we should be mildly excited about Jeff Marquez.

Posted by: Bradley [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 20, 2008 05:09 PM