Notice the silky set-up as Jake Rogers eases onto his haunches as neatly as dad slides into his La-Z-Boy.
Pay attention to the deft wrist-flicks as he receives – not catches, but receives – pitches of any velocity and, seemingly, any location within a 6-foot-1, 190-pound man’s reach.
And then, of course, there’s the arm. Rogers’ throws look like World War II tracer bullets.
Jonathan Mayo of MLB Pipeline last week put Rogers on the website’s 2019 All Defensive Team culled from scouts across baseball’s minor leagues.
“ … (Rogers) continued to show (in 2018) just how good he is behind the dish,” Mayo wrote.