Marco Estrada (baseball)

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Marco R. Estrada (born July 5, 1983, in Sonora, Mexico) is a North American professional baseball player. He is a right-handed pitching prospect in the Washington Nationals organization. A graduate of Sylmar High School in Sylmar, California, Estrada attended Glendale College and Long Beach State University. He was selected by the Nationals in the sixth round of the 2005 amateur draft.

After being drafted by Washington, Estrada began his minor-league career pitching for the Vermont Expos in the short-season New York-Penn League. In three starts and six relief appearances, he pitched 33⅔ innings, compiling a win-loss record of 1-3 and an ERA of 5.08. During that time he struck out 37 batters while issuing just 16 bases on balls.

Estrada spent the 2006 season with the GCL Nationals, Washington's affiliate in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League, and the Savannah Sand Gnats of the low-A-level South Atlantic League. He accrued a record of 3 wins and 4 losses and a 3.98 ERA over 61 innings, consisting of 12 starts and one appearance in relief, striking out a total of 56 batters and walking just 20.

In 2007 Estrada pitched for the GCL Nationals, for the low-A-level Hagerstown Suns of the South Atlantic League, and for the Potomac Nationals in the high-A-level Carolina League. He logged 105⅔ innings in 23 starts, winning 6, losing 8, and recording a 4.85 ERA with 102 strikeouts and 37 walks. He began the 2008 season with the Harrisburg Senators of the Class AA Eastern League.

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