Brooks Brannon

Yeah, I mean, you look at...

For guys to hit the ball as hard as he does in the system, to have an end zone miss of 15% compared to the guys ahead of him who are guys like Frely Encarnacion, Brooks Brannon, Johan Fran Garcia, those are guys that all swing and miss in the zone at like... you know 25 and higher rates within the zone right so these are it's a different kind of it's a profile for a it's not natural to have

that contact feel for contact when you're as big as he is and when you have you know as much power as he does and swing as hard as he does but

The question is getting the ball in the air.

850K signee, so got a pretty big bonus.

His teammate this year in Greenville is at number 38.

Former catcher, now first base only, Brooks Brannon.

2022 ninth rounder out of high school.

That's really impressive.

Now, talking about some of the guys, you know, first person that kind of comes to mind of someone who has kind of transcended baseball and someone who has been more of just the sport is Brooks Brannon, our Charlie Eschbach Citizen of the Year.

Seeing Brooks stay after games, signing autographs, giving away bats to kids, talking with fans, volunteering, being in videos.

and also being one of the best offensive players in baseball right now, hitting bombs left and right, learning a new defensive position.

Um, my, I guess maybe just top level, my takeaway is there's a lot of these guys that had good years require a lot of caveating of like, okay, yeah, but.

I- is that kinda how you felt on maybe not all of them, but like, so for example, Yoan Garcia, Brooks Brannon.

Yeah, there's a lot of pop there.

They hit the ball super hard.

Sure

... like there are things to like.

Like Brooks Brannon hit an absolute missile to right center field, and he's been-

Mm-hmm