Shaun Marcum

Marcum ended the season with a 13–8 win–loss record, 3.64 ERA, and 165 strikeouts in 1951⁄3 innings pitched.

Shaun Michal Marcum (born December 14, 1981) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, and Cleveland Indians.

In 2002, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star.

Marcum initially attended the University of Missouri, but transferred to Missouri State University, playing on the 2003 College World Series team as a pitcher and shortstop.

Marcum was drafted by the Blue Jays in the third round, 80th overall, of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft.

He quickly rose through the minor leagues and made his major league debut on September 6, 2005 as a late season call-up when rosters expanded.

He made his debut against the Baltimore Orioles pitching one scoreless inning, giving up a hit and one walk, with one strikeout.

Marcum pitched eight innings, giving up six hits, without surrendering a run during the month of September.

Marcum went 3–4 for the Blue Jays in 2006 in 21 games, including 14 starts, with an earned run average (ERA) of 5.06.

In his final seven starts, he had a record of 2–1 with a 3.31 ERA.

Marcum had a breakthrough season in 2007, going 12–6 with a 4.13 ERA.

He struck out a total of 122 batters over 159 innings of work.

He pitched 6+ scoreless innings in seven of his starts, including two instances where he pitched 6+ no-hit innings before being relieved.

One of those instances was against the Boston Red Sox.

In 2008, Marcum got off to a good start, going 5–4 with a 2.65 ERA and 86 strikeouts in 982⁄3 innings, but an injury, followed by a handful of weak starts sent him to Triple-A on August 23.

In September he was back in the starting rotation and he seemed to have returned to form.

However, on September 19, days after an abbreviated start in which he left with elbow pain, the Jays released the information that Marcum would need Tommy John surgery and would miss the rest of the 2008 season and likely all of 2009.

He finished the 2008 campaign with a 9–7 record, 3.39 ERA, and 123 strikeouts in 1511⁄3 innings.

On May 2, Marcum got his first win against the Oakland Athletics, it was his first win since September 11, 2008 before going through Tommy John surgery.

As of May 1, 2009, Marcum had started to throw again.

He made two starts with the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays in early July, and pitching successfully on his rehab assignment, he then started twice with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and once more with Triple-A Las Vegas 51s before being shut down for the season to prevent him from injury again.

On March 22, Marcum was named the Opening Day starter for the 2010 season, succeeding Roy Halladay for that role, who had seven consecutive opening day starts for the team from 2003 to 2009.

On August 4, 2010, Marcum gave up Alex Rodriguez's 600th career home run.

On December 6, at the 2010 MLB Winter Meetings, Marcum was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for infield prospect Brett Lawrie.

On July 4, 2011, Marcum hit his first Major League home run, a grand slam off Daniel Hudson of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Despite the home run, the Diamondbacks won the game 8–6.

In the 2011 NLDS against Arizona, Marcum gave up a grand slam to Paul Goldschmidt, which sealed a win for the Diamondbacks.

However, the Brewers won the series in five games.

In 2011, he went 13–7, with a 3.54 ERA and 158 strikeouts in a career-high 2002⁄3 innings.

Due to injury, Marcum's 2012 season was cut short to just 21 starts.

He went 7–4 with a 3.70 ERA and 109 strikeouts for the Brewers.

After the season, he elected free agency.

On January 30, 2013, Marcum signed a one-year contract worth $4 million with the New York Mets.

Through his first 11 games (9 of which were starts) for the Mets, Marcum posted a dismal 0–9 record with a 5.76 ERA.

He recorded his first win as a Met in a game against the Chicago White Sox on June 26, 2013.

Marcum pitched eight innings and yielded only four hits and two walks while striking out two.

In 2015, he became the pitching coach for the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.

He joined the Missouri Southern Lions as their pitching coach in August 2016.

Marcum was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where he attended Excelsior Springs High School.

Athletically, besides baseball, he was a two-time State Champion in wrestling and a standout football player.