In March, at the end of spring training, Shairon Martis sat across from Doug
Harris, the Nationals’ director of player development. Martis had been a
major league in 2009, and now the Nationals would not even let him be a minor
leaguer. They kept in Florida at the start of the season, and Harris to him
explained why.
09年曾上過大聯盟的 Shairon Martis 今年開季連小聯盟也去不了，因為他被告知
自己得在佛羅里達州的延長春訓展開他的新球季。
Harris challenged Martis to change himself. He needed to eat healthier and
condition his body better. He needed to change his delivery. Even though he
had reached the major leagues at 22, he needed to start over.
“It was,” Harris said, “a difficult conversation for Shairon.”
球員發展主任 Doug Harris 告訴 Martis 他必須改變，一切得從頭開始。
The conversation also sent Martis on a possible path back to the majors, and
last night Martis reached the high point of his reemergent season. He threw a
seven-inning no-hitter in for Class AA Harrisburg against New Hampshire,
striking out nine and walking only one. The performance highlighted Martis’s
quietly excellent season. While throwing 128 innings, Martis has a 2.81 ERA
with 143 strikeouts and 38 walks.
In doing so, Martis has followed the directives Harris laid out in March. He
changed his diet and took workouts more seriously. He changed his delivery
with the help of Harrisburg pitching coach Randy Tomlin, allowing him to
throw his fastball – which zips between 88 and 94 mph – with a more
effective arm angle and better life. He also throws his curveball with better
depth.
在2A投教 Randy Tomlin 的幫助下 Martis 改變了投球機制，同時控制飲食，練球
也練得更勤奮。全新的 Martis 直球球速變快、變得更會跑、曲球掉的軌跡更大，
成績更是一等一：防禦率 2.81，128局飆出143K，只有38次四壞球保送。前天甚至
投出了一場7局無安打比賽，狀態來到了漲停版。
“I’m proud him,” Harris said. “He’s taken ownership of his career. I
think Shairon has a much better awareness about what it’s going to take to
put him in a big league equation.”
Entering this season, Martis became something of an afterthought. The
Nationals made him a September call-up in 2008, and he became their No. 4
starter in 2009, when he was barely 22 years old. Martis won the first five
decisions of his career, and then the Nationals lost seven of the next eight
starts he made. His ERA shot to 5.25. At the end of June, the Nationals
shipped him back to the minors, and he all but disappeared.
08年 Martis 在高階小聯盟投的不錯，9月被叫上大聯盟，隔年就成為開季固定的
4號先發，當時他才剛滿22歲。一開始表現不差，但之後幾場先發成績直線下滑，
最後在6月底被下放回小聯盟，自此 Martis 沉寂了很長的一段時間。
His career path makes it easy to forget he is still 24, 10 months older than
Brad Peacock and a month younger than Tom Milone. Martis hasn’t necessarily
made himself into a prospect, but he has put himself back on the map in the
Nationals’ organization.
年紀也不算大，今年4月才滿24歲。
Even if it’s highly unlikely he wins one, the Nationals could even let
Martis compete for a rotation spot next spring. That’s a long way from this
spring, when the regular season started and Martis stayed in Florida.
“That’s something that we’ll talk about it, him and several other guys,”
Harris said. “He has certainly created that conversation. Had he stayed
stauts quo going into 2011, he was really just treading water.”
想搶明年先發名額難度大概跟 Morse 拿下國聯年度MVP一樣高，Martis 未來還有
很長一段路要走。
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話說 Martis 這樣算是被 rush 到嗎? 不過他08年在2A丟了7X局，3A 也有4X局，
就是了。
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