This past season, Carlos Marmol turned in the 4th best ERA+ season (min. 50 innings) for anyone as young as he. Marmol, who started his professional career as an outfielder, was the only middle reliever to receive an MVP vote in 2007. Interestingly enough, Marmol's age 24 season was extremely similar to another age 24 season that had been turned in almost a decade before.

  Cnt Player            **ERA **   IP  Year Age Tm  Lg  G  GS CG SHO GF  W  L  W-L% SV  H   R   ER  BB  SO   ERA  HR  BF   AB  2B 3B IBB HBP  SH  SF GDP  SB CS Pk BK WP   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  OPS   Pit  Str
 ----+-----------------+--------+-----+----+---+---+--+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+-----+--+---+---+---+---+---+------+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---- 
    1 Carlos Marmol        326    69.1 2007  24 CHC NL  59  0  0   0  6  5  1  .833  1  41  11  11  35  96   1.43  3  285  243  5  0   3   4   1   2   2   9  0  1  1  5  .169  .282  .226  .508   35 1156  711 
    2 Ugueth Urbina        323    69.1 1998  24 MON NL  64  0  0   0 59  6  3  .667 34  37  11  10  33  94   1.30  2  272  236 11  0   2   0   2   1   4   6  0  1  2  3  .157  .259  .229  .488   35           

Its amazing that that was only 1998. A lot can happen in ten years!

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