The Miami Marlins had 274 players appear at some level of their minor league affiliate feeder system in 2019. Tyler Mitzel spent his second year with the team.
Undrafted after his final season of NCAA baseball, the Miami Marlins inked him to a minor league deal on June 1st, 2018. Mitzel had just completed an 12-0 season for the National Champion Augustana College Vikings in the Division 2 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. In 80 innings of work, he struck out 76 batters and held the opposition to a 1.071 WHIP.
Mitzel is a 6’4″, 210 lb. right-handed pitcher from Sioux Falls, SD.