{"id":4095,"date":"2011-06-14T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2011-10-24T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:53:19","slug":"2012-mlb-draft-preview-deven-marrero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4095","title":{"rendered":"2012 MLB Draft Preview: Deven Marrero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/devenmarrero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4096\" title=\"devenmarrero\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/devenmarrero-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/devenmarrero-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/devenmarrero.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Super Regionals head toward a conclusion and the Omaha field is set, it seems appropriate to introduce to our readers to Arizona State shortstop Deven Marrero, who is likely to land in the first-round and perhaps even within the first 10 picks.\u00a0 Yet, he is not even the top shortstop in his own conference that will be eligible for the 2012 draft.\u00a0 That honor belongs to Stanford\u2019s Kenny Diekroeger.<\/p>\n<p>Marrero profiles as an above-average defender at short with a plus arm and a plus glove.\u00a0 He has outstanding instincts for the position and should have no problem staying there as a professional.\u00a0 At the plate, he fails to generate tremendous bat speed in large part due to a lack of lower body action.\u00a0 He hits against a pretty quiet front, though, and keeps his hands inside well enough to be a 50 to 55 hit tool player.\u00a0 He will never hit many bombs in the pros, but he runs well enough to at least have an isolated power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a freshman, Marrero torched to the PAC-10 with a slash line of .397\/.442\/.628 with six bombs.\u00a0 With the new bat regulations firmly in place and functioning to rid the college game of any and all offense, Marrero fell off considerably to a line of .313\/.351\/.436 prior to\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s matchup in Austin.\u00a0 Stats in college are virtually meaningless in terms of evaluating professional prospects, except in the PAC-10, SEC, ACC, and Big XII.\u00a0 ASU plays such a tough schedule against terrific pitching, however, that the numbers do somewhat translate.\u00a0 So this is a discouraging trend from Marrero.\u00a0 Nevertheless, his glove is his ticket to the Show and not his bat.\u00a0 His bat should keep him afloat and in the lineup enough for his glove to impress.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Super Regionals head toward a conclusion and the Omaha field is set, it seems appropriate to introduce to our readers to Arizona State shortstop Deven Marrero, who is likely to land in the first-round and perhaps even within the first 10 picks.\u00a0 Yet, he is not even the top shortstop in his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2830,7,15,1300,6,9,13,10,14],"tags":[2310,2338,2342,2335,2336,2339,2340,2160,2337,2341,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}