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Graham Marteney
Starting Pitcher | Port Hope Battery
Pitching Marteney likes to get hitters looking down and away, then ties them up by coming inside with hard stuff, getting a lot of groundball outs. Marteney can get into trouble with walks, and there's concern about him being able to maintain his stuff over the whole season. His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. Sometimes I wish he'd just give up on throwing the changeup, it's like a BP ball! No one questions this guy's heart. They do question why he just can't get it done late in the game. He changes speeds well enough to keep righthanders from teeing off on him.
Defense & Hitting With a decent slide step and his constant attention to the running game, Marteney limits the damage done by basestealers. He hurts himself by falling awkwardly off the mound in his follow-through, which allows too many balls to go through the middle for base hits. Marteney is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Marteney has some pop in his swing.
-- Moostard Nyman
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