Sam Dykstra

Yeah, Anderson Brito, what stood out to me most about him is that I got to see him in the Arizona Fall League, and we talked about this a few months ago when Luis Perales came up in that discussion.

Thanks for sharing that the other day after that trade, going back to that clip.

Well, we'll see about that.

But I'm sure we're going to be talking a lot about the Nats farm system in the coming months and the changes that are going on there.

That's a story for another day.

Anderson Brito in the Arizona Fall League.

It was a really pitching-starved league this year.

So anybody who could shove was going to stand out.

And he certainly did that.

And, you know, the fastballs in the mid 90s, he's got a really good sweeping slider.

He's got a really good curveball on top of that.

So he's got some breaking pitches to work with.

I think if he was somebody who at this stage right now, he hasn't thrown more than 55 innings in a season.

If that cap was at 80 innings, we're probably talking about swapping him and melt because I think there's real mid rotation upside here for him.

Maybe even a number two if he can get a decent change up in there and the control can be a little bit better.

But in that Arizona folly, he faced 47 batters, struck out 22 of them.

So he was just on everybody's mind this fall, obviously was on the Tampa Bay Rays mind going to get him.

He was somebody actually wrote about this the other day.

We're trying to predict the number one prospect in each system for this time next year.

I saw the healthy 2026 Anderson Brito could have been that guy for the Astros.