Isan Diaz may have been the most hyped second base prospect in the Miami Marlins organization in the past 20 years according to MLB.com.
There is good reason why the baseball masses were excited, along with the Marlins front office for his arrival in 2019. After swatting 26 home runs and 70 RBI in 102 games at Triple-A New Orleans last season, the natural ascension to the parent club was expected to be a smooth transition toward the end of the season.
It was anything but that for Diaz, who looked like a power hitter at times – while he jacked the ball out of the yard against Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard – and looked like a rookie in Single-A ball committing errors on routine groundouts.