I won’t lie to you, I had to do a deep Google search on Chicago Cubs hurler Brailyn Marquez since he was a name I was not familiar with. Well, to start he’s a 20-year-old southpaw out of the Dominican Republic. So, the next Pedro Martinez, perhaps? I’m kidding. Martinez was a righty.
After a solid 2018 campaign, Marquez could be a nice up and coming prospect in 2019 and maybe make the top-100 in 2020. Here’s what MLB Pipeline says about him:
“The Cubs haven’t had much success developing pitchers, though they do have high hopes for Marquez, whose $600,000 bonus was the highest given to a left-hander during the 2015-16 international amateur signing period.