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Marinez cleaning up out of Crew’s bullpen
- Updated: August 13, 2016
MILWAUKEE — His usage may be irregular and his innings may come when the game’s outcome often already has been decided, but Jhan Marinez has been precisely what the Brewers could ask for from a mopup reliever.
In his first full season in the Majors, Marinez entered Friday with a 3.51 ERA and 3.79 FIP in 33 1/3 innings over 22 games. Milwaukee’s record in those 22 contests? 5-17.
That poor team record, however, is not any sort of indictment of Marinez, who turned 28 years old Friday. For much of the time since coming over from the Rays on May 12 in exchange for cash, he served as the eighth reliever in the Crew’s eight-man bullpen. Now, with seven relievers on the active roster, Marinez no longer holds that exact same role but often finds himself still eating innings during blowouts.
“He’s kind of been the eighth man at some parts — obviously he’s not that at this point — but when he was that eighth man, …
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