Miami Herald · Mar 2, 2017
Baseball-smart Marlin turns to ‘tools of ignorance’
It has been more than five decades since major-league brothers worked as battery mates — pitcher and catcher. Larry and Norm Sherry were the last to do it in 1955.
A lot would have to happen for there to be another pitcher-catcher brother combination. But as long as the Nola brothers are around — Marlins minor-league prospect Austin and Philadelphia Phillies starter Aaron — the possibility exists.
First, though, Austin Nola has to make a successful conversion from infielder to catcher, an experiment that has worked once before for the Marlins when they drafted J.T. Realmuto as an infielder and turned him into a catcher. And then the would have to land in the same organization.