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Marcos Molina’s future is clouded

Signed in early 2012 out of the Dominican Republic for $100,000, Marcos Molina flew under the radar until 2014, when he made his Brooklyn Cyclones debut. The 19-year-old absolutely tore up the New York-Penn League, posting one of the most statistically dominant pitching seasons in Brooklyn Cyclones history. While the numbers certainly were eye-popping, it was how Molina was doing it that was really catching everyone’s eye. The Dominican-born pitcher utilized a delivery that as unique as it was ergonomically inefficient, generating virtually all of his arm strength from a lightning-fast arm with a short path rather than his lower half.