Sorry if this has been covered, but I wasn't on the board. I don't know much about Marcum - his stats look good. What's his deal? Is he hurt at all? I thought I heard something about that but I am not sure. What kind of pitches does he throw, and did he start all of last year? Thanks,

He is restarting his career as a left hander.

A non negative post...no way

Personally I love the Marcum signing, there's a lot of similarities that can be drawn between him and Chris Young, their career stats are almost identical. He also gets by on a heater that sits in the 86-87 mph range, he's only 6'1" though.

He has a nasty change that gets a lot of swings and misses, 38% to be exact, which is just as much as Felix Hernandez gets on his change up. He did have elbow tightness that caused him to miss time last year, which is why we got him relatively cheap.

Marcum's a good, solid pitcher. I saw him pitch for the Brewers the last couple of seasons and he was remarkably consistent. He hit the DL in June last year with "elbow tightness" but came back after two months and was still effective.

He's got a 4-seamer, a 2-seamer, a cutter, a changeup and a curve. Not a lot of velocity, but good control and keeps hitters off balance with a variety of pitches.

Reminds me kind of a righthanded Jonathan Niese.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marcush01.shtml

marcum only costs 4 million guaranteed. can earn another 4 million in incentives. so if he stays healthy, 8 million. good signing.

you guys got great value with this signing say id rather have 2 marcums then 1 edwin jackson

Excellent value signing for the Mets. His physicals must've shown some serious red flags though. I have no idea why a guy a very, very solid track record like Marcum's would only be able to secure this type of a deal. Even if he gives you 150IP, that's great value for that type of $.

You guys won't win your division this year, but your rotation really won't be that bad.

Thanks.

Thanks. Sounds good.

"A non negative post...no way"

Bro it's the Mets situation that is negative, not me. When positive things happen with our team I am upbeat about the team.

His signing was mostly to calm the worry warts who need "proven" on their paper rotations. I don't think he'll make much difference one way or the other.

You mean worry warts as far as fans? I hope the GM doesn't make moves on that basis. And they don't exactly have a recent track record of fan-appeasing moves.

Yeah but you perpetuate that negativity