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Is Karson Milbrandt the real deal?

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22 yrs old, 3rd round pick in 2002 out of Missouri high school. Committed to Vandy. Started coming on strong last year after putting on some size.

Currently in AA. Just pitched tonight, 6 ip, 3 hits, no walks, 11k's. Lowered his ERA to 1.24 on the year.

36.1 ip, 51 k's, sub 1 WHIP on the year.

Small sample size but he's been pretty impressive.

On 5/24/2026 at 12:29 PM, Rydawg said:

Need to promote him to AAA already.

eh, good prospects don't always see AAA anyway. they often just get promoted straight out of AA instead. there's not a ton of competitive difference between the two like there used to be.

1 hour ago, hovertical said:

eh, good prospects don't always see AAA anyway. they often just get promoted straight out of AA instead. there's not a ton of competitive difference between the two like there used to be.

I feel like what you're saying used to be correct 15-20 years ago, but in recent times I feel like anybody getting promoted from AA to the majors is a lot more rare. Maybe I'm basing this just on what the Marlins have done recently, but I would bet it's true across the league.

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22 hours ago, farmer_fran said:

I feel like what you're saying used to be correct 15-20 years ago, but in recent times I feel like anybody getting promoted from AA to the majors is a lot more rare. Maybe I'm basing this just on what the Marlins have done recently, but I would bet it's true across the league.

Marlins used to do it all the time AA to AAA because their AAA team was in a hitters league, across the country. Made more sense to promote from Carolina then ALQ when you need a guy. Plus pitchers would get HAMMERED out in ALB and try to mess with mechanics to get the numbers to get promoted. They also didn't value hitters stats out there. It literally was a league for your misfit toys back then.

On 5/16/2026 at 11:05 PM, TheMarlinsProject said:

22 yrs old, 3rd round pick in 2002 out of Missouri high school. Committed to Vandy. Started coming on strong last year after putting on some size.

Currently in AA. Just pitched tonight, 6 ip, 3 hits, no walks, 11k's. Lowered his ERA to 1.24 on the year.

36.1 ip, 51 k's, sub 1 WHIP on the year.

Small sample size but he's been pretty impressive.

Man, I know Larry Beinfest had a reputation for finding talent but man...drafting someone who wouldn't even be born for 2 more years is a hell of a play.

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Milbrandt pitched again in AA. Wasn't as dominant as last few starts but gave up nothing through four innings until he surrendered a homer in the fifth.

This ended his scoreless innings streak at 27 and change.

4.2 ip, 6 h, 2 er, 3 w, 7k's. No decision and raised ERA to 1.34.

He was sitting 94-95 on his fastball and his curve and slider (it's a gyro-type sweeper that is borderline unhittable if they swing) looked sharper. Like his potential but he is not ready yet.

Arquette looks the part. He is a physical specimen.

Juan Matheus is a compact middle infielder and he looks very promising. Most impressive prospect I saw. We got him in the Weathers trade.

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