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Kirk Sarloos - Courtesy Round Rock

Kirk Sarloos
Pitcher

Sarloos holds an end-of-season roster position with the Houston Astros after breezing through the AA and AAA Zephyrs on the minor league rep of a 10-game winning streak for AA Round Rock.

His lofty 6+ ERA with Houston belies his record with Round Rock and then the Zephyrs, where he was an impressive 4-0 with an 0.79 ERA (3ER/34IP) over five home starts, 6-1 with a 1.82 ERA (10ER/49.1IP) over eight outings on the road.

Impressive statistics on Sarloos include:

No home trippers after the first start of the year, and it is no wonder that he attracted the eye of the coaches in the bigs.
No runs allowed over seven consecutive starts from 5/10-6/6. His scoreless-inning streak ran up to 48.1 before he served up two in the second inning of his last start against the Shreveport Swampdragons.
Sarloos pitched a complete-game, and a seven-innning 11-0 shutout.

Sarloos was allowed personal time to get married in June. The Long Beach native is a grad of the Cal State Fullerton program, where he was a multiple winner of the Big West conference pitcher of the week.

MLN expects him to start with the Zephyrs in 2003, with a possibility that he might find himself in the bullpen of the Astros by mid-year.

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