JUPITER, Fla. — Selected in the same draft as Dylan Carlson, six rounds and 193 picks later, catcher Andrew Knizner first shared a dugout with the outfielder in Low-A Peoria and wondered when exactly this heralded teenager was going to put the hitter in switch-hitter.
“I was like, golly, this guy does not swing the bat at all — doesn’t swing,” Knizner said. “I was like, ‘What the heck is this guy doing?’ Now I know. He looked at his whole game and wasn’t trying to become the player he is today just overnight. He was putting together a plan on how he wanted to develop over the course of a couple of years to be ready when it mattered, to be ready to play in the big leagues.