Hello everybody and welcome to the On the Farm Pitcher List podcast about all things

the prospect of dynasty and minor league to later. Today Rick and I have an awesome show planned out for you guys.

We're joined by Drew Martinez. He is the manager of one of the Dominican Summer League affiliate teams for the San Francisco Giants.

And he was also this year a coach for the Scottsdale Scorpions and the Arizona Fall League.

So we're going to be able to talk to him about really kind of all things, Dominican Summer League and kind of like player development.

Because it's, you know, one of those leagues that we don't get a ton of information on uh you know obviously it's like in another country and everything and it's like kind

of like the first step and so it's it's really just a great opportunity to learn more about about the

league and the players so drew thank you so much for for joining the show uh how you doing today

i'm doing well excited to be here thank you all for having me no, absolutely. Rick, how are you doing today, man? This is exciting, isn't it?

Oh, I'm extremely excited, man. As somebody who watches a ton of prospects, writes up reports on the daily for multiple times a day. This is like a dream come true talking to somebody who is

in the sport doing this and especially with the league like you said Jake that we get some

information but we don't get the full picture and it's it's awesome to be able to talk one-on-one

with Drew so I'm really excited about this.

Yeah, Rick, uh, Drew, Drew, just for your context, Rick is our deep league,

or deep prospects guy. Like he, he knows a ton about the rookie leagues. I do not have the patience, I think, or the time to really get deep into like the depths of the internet in that

sense. Uh, but no, Rick has like his own like top 1500 prospects list.

Like he's like really deep into it.

So, you know, we got we got some good questions here.

And before we really get into like the nitty gritty of like the DSL and everything like that,

I just want to like, you know, no more like kind of introduce the listeners a bit more to you,

Drew and kind of hear more about like, you know, your background in baseball in general in coaching. So just like to start,

you know, like, yeah, how did you get, how did you get, how did you get started in baseball? Like,

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