Maholm, Paul

- Starting Pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates

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Age	27
Bats or Throws	Left

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Mahalo Maholm

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Reviewed by SteveP
March 10, 2010
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Last updated: March 10, 2010

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On a better team, Maholm would have probably found himself moving into the role that Ron Villone has filled for so many years as a lefty swing man. He's extremely hard on left-handed hitter who struggle to make the Mendoza line off his stuff, but right handers do rather well, thank you. Here's another problem with in-play totals (dear reader, you know what Maholm is, right? a four pitch lefty junk balling ground-baller who doesn't prevent hits and relies on his infield defense to bail him out of situations).

Theoretically, according to Voros McCracken pitchers have no control over whether a ball hit in-play becomes a hit or not, so riddle me this:

BABIP

Year vs.L vs.R
2005 .107 .218
2006 .319 .327
2007 .293 .291
2008 .218 .262
2009 .224 .306

It sure looks like he has a different level of control over his results when facing lefties and righties, doesn't it?

9-0-4.25-1.40-115.185IP

Positives / Upside	For a modest investment you get a ton of innings and it is not difficult to figure out when Maholm is going to be the good version (2008 3.71) or the bad version (2007 5.02). If he can get his slider working, he's fine if he can't then he'll be relying on his curve and his result will be...less interesting. 11-0-3.80-1.30-130. 210IP
Negatives / Downside	Questionable offensive support and mediocre K rates limit his upside. He has never shown the ability to keep batters off the bases. 8-0-4.50-1.45-115. 195IP
Recommendation	Buy at cost
Draft Position	434