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Miami Marlins to Call Up One of Top Prospects in Baseball

The Miami Marlins are bringing up starting pitcher Eury Perez. He's the 10th-ranked prospect in baseball, per the MLB.com rankings.

Brady Farkas

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The Miami Marlins are making a huge move in the starting rotation. They're bringing up top prospect Eury Perez. He'll start Friday against the Cincinnati Reds.

Marlins reporter Craig Mish put out the information in a Tweet:

The Miami Marlins are calling up 20 year old top pitching prospect Eury Perez. This historical start will be Friday Night at loanDepot Park against the Cincinnati Reds per sources.

They are calling Perez straight up from Double-A, where he is currently 3-1 with a 2.32 ERA. He's struck out 42 batters in 31 innings.

Perez is listed as the Marlins No. 1 prospect and is the 10th overall prospect in baseball, per the MLB.com rankings.

More on him from MLB.com:

Pérez's combination of size, stuff and polish is tough to top, starting with a fastball that parks at 94-97 mph and peaks at 100 and plays even better than its velocity thanks to its shape, running action and induced vertical break. His deceptive upper-80s changeup is just as nasty, generating an outstanding 61 percent swing-and-miss rate in 2022 thanks to its fade and tumble. After featuring an upper-70s curveball in the past, he added a tighter mid-80s slider last season that grades as plus more consistently than his bender.

Considering his youth and size, Pérez is incredibly advanced on the mound. He has uncanny body control that allows him to keep his long limbs in sync, repeat his delivery and fill the strike zone. The Marlins also praise his maturity and mound presence...

The Marlins are currently 19-19 after 7.0 back of the Braves in the National League East.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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