Pablo Manuel Garcia is a 5’10”, 170 lb. switch-hitting catcher from Santo Domingo, DR. Born on September 26th, 1996, he was signed through free agency by the Miami Marlins for $100,000 during the summer of 2013.
Very few players from each season’s Dominican Summer League squad ever eventually get a taste of the major leagues, somewhere between two-to-five percent. The expectation for these players is somewhere on the order of low-risk, high-reward. Garcia’s chances at making it to the major leagues someday is low, but he’s already jumped two levels, with a chance at a third in 2019.