With the fifth round selection, 147th off the board, the Miami Marlins chose Chris Vallimont out of Mercyhurst College. Vallimont is a 6’5″, 220 lb. right-handed starter from Erie, PA, and he’s been tearing up the Midwest League in the early part of the 2019 season.
As the Opening Day starter for the Clinton LumberKings, who are the Miami Marlins new single-A affiliate (replacing the South Atlantic League’s Greensboro Grasshoppers), Vallimont held the Kane County Cougars (another ex-Marlins affiliate) to two hits and no runs over five innings. He struck out eight.
After four starts, Vallimont has struck out more than a batter per inning in three of them, and hasn’t allowed more hits than innings pitched.