All-Time Marlins Countdown: Chapter 154

Fish Stripes is bringing you daily articles as part of the All-Time Marlins Countdown leading up to 2021 Opening Day.

Today and every Saturday through the end of the series, I will be a “pinch-hitter” for the Fish Stripes staffers who ordinarily handle these articles. Charles Johnson is more than worthy of his own feature.

The Marlins whiffed on nearly every pick in their inaugural MLB amateur draft class, but they struck gold (literally) with their 1992 first-rounder, University of Miami catcher Charles Johnson.