As this offseason comes to an end, we’re finishing off our five-month-long series on every player in the Miami Marlins system in 2018. This chapter, the 274th-of-286, is about Brett Graves.
Brett Thomas Graves is a 6’1″, 170 lb. right-handed hitting and throwing pitcher from St. Charles, Missouri, population 70,329. The St. Louis suburb (and ninth largest city in Missouri in its own right) has produced a dozen major leaguers in total, including former Miami Marlins pitchers Mark Buehrle and Jacob Turner.
Graves was born on January 30th, 1993, and attended Francis Howell HS in his hometown.