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WATCH: Miami Marlins Youngster Eury Perez Hits 98 MPH For First Strikeout

The 20-year-old phenom is making his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds and it didn't take long for him to get his first career strikeout. He pumped 98 mph on the K to end the top of the first inning.

Brady Farkas

WATCH: Miami Marlins Youngster Eury Perez Hits 98 MPH For First Strikeout
WATCH: Miami Marlins Youngster Eury Perez Hits 98 MPH For First Strikeout /
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Miami Marlins young righty Eury Perez didn't take long to record his first career strikeout.

The 20-year-old Perez is making his major league debut as we speak, and pumped 98 mph to Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson to end the top of the first inning.

You can watch the video here.

Perez is the first player born in 2003 to make his debut and is one of the top pitching prospects in the game. He's the No. 1 ranked Marlins prospect and the No. 10 overall prospect in the sport.

He was 2-1 at Double-A before getting the call earlier this week.

For more on Perez, here's a portion of his MLB.com prospect profile:

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.

The Marlins enter play on Friday at 19-19 and in second place in the National League East. At the time of this posting, they are tied with the Reds at 0-0 in the top of the second.

Perez allowed no hits and one walk in the top of the first, in addition to the strikeout.

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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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