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The Miami Hurricanes have made a key move in the transfer portal today, landing FIU ace Easton Marks.

A 6-foot-1, 200 pound starter, Marks was dominant for FIU, earning first team C-USA honors. He pitched to a 3.49 ERA in 67 innings, racking up 72 strikeouts with 4.7 BB/ as opponents only hit .232 against him.



For Marks he boasts a 4 pitch mix: fastball, curve, cutter and change up. His fastball has been run up to 97 and consistently lives in that...

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Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
At LSU, would he be a friday sat or Sunday starter?

Serious question, I haven't seen him. But I like to compare to where he would slot in on an elite team.
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He would be a midweek
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Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
Got it. So if we had higher expectations for our team, this dude should be Saturday at best.

@Sebastian Font do we know if were looking at him as friday or will still try to get another ace?
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On your first point I feel like Arkansas is like an LSU comparison still, their saturday guy was the one that threw the no-no. Marks would be a Saturday guy for all of the ACC (unless I'm completely forgetting about somebody, correct me if needed), and the majority of the SEC.

I think we're probably going to look for another starter, maybe not "Ace" (Cause as it stands its Ciscar, DeRias, Marks, Evans). You could lose two of those to the draft and obviously don't want to rely on freshman.

And I think he's looked at as a friday guy, nothing is obviously finalized but he has the stuff

Especially with the offensive injection (More to come), we shouldn't have to rely as hard as we did on pitching. Ex- being able to get away with some of Hugus' 4 run starts
 
That’s two from FIU now. When do they pitch a fit and refuse to play us FGCU-style?

On a related note, FIU has more than 20 players in the portal - on par with some schools that had coaching changes.
 
Sebastian Font said:
On your first point I feel like Arkansas is like an LSU comparison still, their saturday guy was the one that threw the no-no. Marks would be a Saturday guy for all of the ACC (unless I'm completely forgetting about somebody, correct me if needed), and the majority of the SEC.

I think we're probably going to look for another starter, maybe not "Ace" (Cause as it stands its Ciscar, DeRias, Marks, Evans). You could lose two of those to the draft and obviously don't want to rely on freshman.

And I think he's looked at as a friday guy, nothing is obviously finalized but he has the stuff

Especially with the offensive injection (More to come), we shouldn't have to rely as hard as we did on pitching. Ex- being able to get away with some of Hugus' 4 run starts
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Excellent and thorough response, I appreciate that.

Obviously still a lot of missing pieces to the team, but from the trajectory im seeing, im not too sure this is a Omaha level pitching staff (bullpen looks fringe also). I think we need to add atleast two more pitchers that could have regular roles for Omaha level teams.

Ideally, we get a friday pitcher and have Mark's on sat and ciscar on sunday. Evans midweek. And Derias as a high leverage receiver.
 
Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
Excellent and thorough response, I appreciate that.

Obviously still a lot of missing pieces to the team, but from the trajectory im seeing, im not too sure this is a Omaha level pitching staff (bullpen looks fringe also). I think we need to add atleast two more pitchers that could have regular roles for Omaha level teams.

Ideally, we get a friday pitcher and have Mark's on sat and ciscar on sunday. Evans midweek. And Derias as a high leverage receiver.
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Yup, I forgot to add my point about bullpen. We are still looking to add there.

And I think DeRias is interesting because as much as his stuff can play into a relief role, I think he’s still too raw for the leverage play. He needs to get a rhythm going which was why he was successful as a starter. I definitely think that’s a path they can explore though.
 
scane said:
That’s two from FIU now. When do they pitch a fit and refuse to play us FGCU-style?

On a related note, FIU has more than 20 players in the portal - on par with some schools that had coaching changes.
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Ya, they seemed to get decimated, as it was starters in addition to role players.
 
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Sebastian Font said:
On your first point I feel like Arkansas is like an LSU comparison still, their saturday guy was the one that threw the no-no. Marks would be a Saturday guy for all of the ACC (unless I'm completely forgetting about somebody, correct me if needed), and the majority of the SEC.

I think we're probably going to look for another starter, maybe not "Ace" (Cause as it stands its Ciscar, DeRias, Marks, Evans). You could lose two of those to the draft and obviously don't want to rely on freshman.

And I think he's looked at as a friday guy, nothing is obviously finalized but he has the stuff

Especially with the offensive injection (More to come), we shouldn't have to rely as hard as we did on pitching. Ex- being able to get away with some of Hugus' 4 run starts
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They should get the best available proven pitchers that they can get in the portal.you can never have enough pitchers in baseball especially good ones.when you got good pitching you will always be competitive
 
good pick up. Replaces Hugus.

He might be a Saturday guy on a bunch of ACC teams. But what does that get you? With no Friday guy.

Like CanesCanes said if we want to be a real threat you need a dude on Fridays. I’m not saying we need Liam Doyle every year. But you need a guy who even when he is off he gives you 6 and a chance to win and when he is on…forget it. Ciscar should be a Sunday type for us. 6-7 innings. Frustrate guys with funk. Tons of strikes. Can go for sweeps and feel good or when you need to win the series you know hes going to be the bulldog.
 
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