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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
DVR'd the game today so I could watch Martinez pitch. He pitched against the starters for Miami. I know ts spring training but Carlos was so good already. He is going to win a Cy Young award someday.
It looks like he is camouflaging that slider better. Was spotting the fastball low and away to leftys. Seemed he pitched higher up in the zone for some reason. Maybe thats what they were working on today?
Slider/97 fastball/change. Their timing was off all 5 innings he pitched.
He should be able to make it to 200 innings and stay strong in the playoffs, if we can find enough offense to get us there.
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Most importantly, he looks like a man this year.
The last couple of years, he's looked slight; like a boy out there playing with grownups. This season he appears to added some thickness to his frame and that could easily help him maintain his health and his stuff throughout the season.
Pitchers break down - it's what they do. High effort pitchers like Martinez doubly so. But it appears he's taken positive steps towards getting through the season strong.
The next thing to work on for him needs to be his efficiency. He's still going to get strikeout happy at times and I think if he wants to be a 200 inning pitcher, he needs to work on getting guys out earlier in counts and only really dialing his stuff up when he needs it.