Miami Marlins Prospects: Josh Simpson Overachieving in Batavia

The Miami Marlins have a lot of prospects seemingly on the way to help out the parent club.

Here comes the cavalry, as they used to say. The 30 most widely heralded prospects of course make the MLB Pipeline website’s list for each team. The Miami Marlins farm system is considerably deeper even than that.

Josh Simpson is a 6’2″, 190 lb. left-handed reliever from Stafford, Connecticut. He’ll be celebrating his 22nd birthday in three days, and this past June was chosen by the Miami Marlins in the 32nd round of the annual MLB Amateur Entry Draft. Taken 951st overall, there is precedent for players chosen at the position in getting to the big leagues. Simpson would join major league alum Kevin…