Brandon Morrow was the Seattle Mariners' first round draft choice in the 2006 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, and was the fifth overall selection in the draft. He is a pitcher from the University of California, Berkeley. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 360 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (679 × 1129 pixel, file size: 289 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Brandon Morrow Metadata This file contains... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ... Major league affiliations American League (1977–present) West Division (1977–present) Current uniform Name Seattle Mariners (1977–present) Ballpark Safeco Field (1999–present) The Kingdome (1977-1999) Major league titles World Series titles (0) None AL Pennants (0) None West Division titles (3) [1] 2001 â€¢ 1997 â€¢ 1995 Wild card berths... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... The Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft is held every year in June by conference call among the 30 Major League clubs. ... A baseball pitcher delivers the ball to home plate In baseball, pitching is the act of throwing the baseball from the pitchers mound toward the catcher with the goal of retiring a batter who attempts to make contact with it, or draw a walk. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...

Morrow was a starter at California, and in his final season had a record of 7-4 with an ERA of 2.05. Brandon played his first season in the Mariners' system with the Arizona League Mariners and Inland Empire 66ers. He was 0-2 with a 2.77 ERA in Arizona and 0-0 with an 0.00 ERA at Inland Empire. In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ... The Arizona League Mariners are a minor league baseball team in Peoria, Arizona, USA. They are a Class R team in the Arizona League and have been a farm team of the Seattle Mariners since 2005. ... The Inland Empire 66ers are a minor league baseball team in San Bernardino, California, USA. They are a high-A class team in the California League. ...

With the Mariners the next year, Morrow surprised many by not giving up a run for much of spring training, and turning in an overall very strong performance that earned him a bullpen spot on the opening day roster for the start of the next season.

Brandon Morrow has a 93-98 mph fastball with two complementary pitches (slider & splitter). He registered a 2.25 ERA and 9.6 strikeouts per game at two levels last summer.

Performance during the 2007 season

Brandon Morrow has in the last few games of April twice come in during high pressure situations and delivered stellar performances. In the April 29th game against the Kansas City Royals he came in with 1 out and runners on second and third base and struck out both batters he faced. This was the second game this week in which he used his overpowering fastball to get out of a 1 out, RISP jam. In both cases he had inherited the runners.

There is concern amongst certain fans (especially at the Lookout Landing blog) that his performances as a clutch reliever will stereotype him as a reliever and prevent him from getting the opportunity to develop into a #2 or #3 starter in Seattle's SP rotation.

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External links

• Minor League Baseball - Player Profile