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Urena makes strong case to stay in rotation
- Updated: July 20, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — The back end of the Marlins’ rotation has been a revolving door of four-inning starts and five-run outings. Manager Don Mattingly has been looking for a bookend to his one through four starters of Jose Fernandez, Tom Koehler, Wei-Yin Chen and Adam Conley.
Mattingly might have found his guy in Jose Urena, who tossed 5 2/3 frames of one-run ball in the Marlins’ 2-1, 10-inning win over the Phillies on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Park for Miami’s seventh win in its last eight.
“He’s earned — in my mind — at least the consideration for that,” Mattingly said. “Unless we have any kind of trouble with our ‘pen where we need to be able to do something different, I don’t know why we’d make a change right now.”
Urena? The guy with a 7.52 ERA out of the bullpen before being demoted last month? Indeed.
“I feel so comfortable being a starter,” Urena said. “It’s comfortable for me because that’s what I’ve been doing so far.”
The 24-year-old righty has been a rotation arm for the duration of his time in the Marlins’ organization, starting 87 percent of the games he appeared in through the Minors since debuting in …
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