Tres !!!

 



3. Not as in a Juanes song named Tres. Or the 3 Amigos movie with Steve Martin & Chevy Chase. 3, as in Lewis Brinson, Jorge Alfaro, and Isan Diaz. 3, as in the number of Organization's each Player has been a part of by the age of 25. 



We'll start with our friend 'Issaaaaan' Diaz, who was a 2nd Round Draft Pick back in 2014 by the Arizona Diamondbacks. After only 1 full Professional Season in the Desert's Farm System, Diaz was part of the Jean Segura Trade that shipped them to Milwaukee for Chase Anderson & Aaron Hill prior to the 2016 Season. 




Diaz was the Brewers' 2016 Minor League Player of the Year after popping 20 Homers in Wisconsin (the Mid-West League). That of course before struggling to the tune of a .222 Batting Average a year later in High-A (Carolina). 




No worries, Isan was part of the now very infamous Christian Yelich Trade after 2017, though the struggles in Miami's System continued (a .232 Hitter in both Double-A & Triple-A in 2018). 



May I ask a side question? Who doesn't hit in the Pacific Coast League?? Hell, even Isan Diaz smoked 26 Bombs for the New Orleans Baby Cakes of the PCL in 2019. It earned him a Promotion to the Majors, where 'Issaaaaan' Diaz has a .180/.269/.290 slash line in now 133 Games and counting.




Hey at least our friend Diaz has company on this side of Players who seem to check out mentally of game situations. Jorge Alfaro was once upon a time a Top-Prospect in the Texas Rangers System. A Catcher out of Colombia with Prodigious Power. 



The 'pop' wasn't enough in Texas I suppose, as Alfaro was shipped to Philadelphia at the Trade Deadline in 2015 for Cole Hamels, where he was to be the Phillies Catcher of the future. 



The future in Philly was short lived, as the Phil's pounced at the opportunity to acquire Marlins Catcher J.T Realmuto in exchange for Sixto Sanchez and 1 'Georgie' Alfaro (Whom only played 1 Full Year in the City of Brotherly Love). Alfaro today is Miami's newest Left Fielder after some truly disastrous showings behind the Dish (Who knew that to be a Catcher you had to actually ''catch" the baseball). 



The Alfaro experiment in Left I suppose is a play from Marlins' pasts, like Josh the "Hammer" Willingham, you know, a guy who actually hit Home Runs.




Last but certainty not least, Lewis Brinson joins the party as someone whose played for 3 different Franchises. A 1st Round Pick by those same Rangers all the way back in 2012, "Sweet Lew" struggled his first Pro Season of 2013, Hitting .232/.322/.427 in A Ball. 



He was shipped out of Texas in the Jonathan Lucroy/Jeremy Jeffress Trade with the Milwaukee Brewers. A Brew-Crew Organization where Brinson spent only 1 Full Season before becoming the headline piece back to the Marlins in the aforementioned Yelich debacle. 



We won't even touch Lewis Brinson's Major League numbers, so let's just take away the again aforementioned PCL in his Minor League Statistics, and "Sweet Lew" is a .256 Hitter in the Minors in 1,833 AB's, with 73 Home Runs in 446 Games. Or in other words, the numbers of Top Prospects 🤔?



..The motto of the story, I guess is to not Trade for Prospects who not 1, but 2 (Hopefully soon to be 3) Teams did not mind shedding. 🤔 Or maybe it's the reality of how bad this Marlins Front Office is, after all, ALL "TRES" ARE STILL HERE!!!       


         


      

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