Mark Paul  
Relief Pitcher | Cincinnati Reds

Pitching
The bottom also falls out of his very good changeup. The Cincinnati Reds hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He's almost as effective against lefthanders as he is versus righthanders.

Defense & Hitting
He tends to fall off slightly to the first-base side of the mound, making him vulnerable to bunts toward third base. He makes up for that minor flaw by being aggressive in fielding his position. He doesn't have much of a pickoff move and he's slow getting the ball to home plate out of the set position. Paul is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Paul has some pop in his swing.

          -- Emu Nyman, AA/AAA Scout
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2004 CIN 65 47 25 34 50 46 53 49 52 80 56 0 45 0 0 0 20 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 8 27 47 205
2005 CIN 66 47 32 35 50 46 53 49 52 80 56 0 53 0 0 0 21 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 4 48 225
2006 CIN 72 47 36 37 50 46 53 49 52 80 65 0 53 0 0 0 22 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 0 51 251
2007 CIN 72 47 38 39 50 46 53 49 52 80 65 0 58 0 0 0 23 0 Overhand Low Minors 0 0 0 55 259
2008 CIN 73 47 42 39 50 46 53 49 52 80 70 0 60 0 0 0 24 0 Overhand Active 0 0 0 55 272
2009 CIN 73 47 45 39 50 46 53 49 52 80 72 0 62 0 0 0 25 1 Overhand Active 0 0 0 55 279
2010 CIN 73 47 45 39 50 46 53 49 52 80 72 0 63 0 0 0 26 2 Overhand AA/AAA 0 0 0 55 279
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History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.