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PHOENIX — Once you’ve been in baseball for 40 years like Pat Murphy has, you are going to have a wealth of connections, huge and small.
It simply so occurs that these connections hold popping up at Brewers Spring Coaching, and in surprising methods.
Like how the Brewers supervisor FaceTimed Rudy from his each day media session on Tuesday. Sure, that Rudy … Like, Rudy from the film “Rudy,” Rudy Ruettiger, who Murphy is aware of from his days teaching baseball at Notre Dame from 1988-94.
On Wednesday, there was a brand new Pat Murphy Connection of the Day: 19-year-old Cooper Pratt, considered one of Milwaukee’s youngest shortstop prospects, who the group has introduced over from Minor League camp. Pratt is only a yr out of highschool, and now he might get the prospect to face huge leaguers whereas he is in Main League camp.
The Brewers drafted Pratt within the sixth spherical final yr, 182nd total, out of Magnolia Heights Excessive Faculty in Mississippi. However he is much more promising than your typical sixth-round Draft decide — Pratt was ranked because the No. 45 prospect going into the 2023 Draft by MLB Pipeline. And he hit .356 over 45 at-bats in Rookie ball final season, ending the yr ranked because the Brewers’ No. 10 prospect.
So it is no marvel Milwaukee desires to get a take a look at him now. And guess what? The Brewers’ skipper already is aware of the Pratts.
“I’ve a reference to the household — you guys could be shocked by that,” Murphy joked on Wednesday. “His uncle performed for me.”
Sure, Cooper, who’s enjoying below Murphy now, has an uncle, Trent Pratt, who performed below Murphy at Arizona State over twenty years in the past. In fact he did.
Trent, a extremely touted catcher, got here to ASU in 1999, the fifth season of Murphy’s 15-year tenure because the Solar Devils’ head coach from 1995-2009. Pratt went on to be drafted by the Phillies in 2002 and performed 4 seasons within the Minor Leagues. Now he is the pinnacle coach at BYU.
Cooper might go even additional in his personal enjoying profession.
“I am excited. I have been listening to about this child,” Murphy mentioned. “I used to be excited once we drafted him. I do know what sort of household he is from, I do know what sort of individuals they’re.”
Murphy is aware of extra of the Pratt household, too. He additionally is aware of Cooper’s different uncle, Scott Pratt, who was an infielder — like Cooper — at Auburn and performed within the Minors, too. And he is aware of Pratt’s grandparents.
However on the baseball subject, Cooper would not remind Murphy of his uncles. Cooper’s construct — he is 6-foot-4, 195 kilos — and demeanor truly remind the Brewers supervisor of Alan Trammell.
“I’ve watched him on the again fields the final two days. He appears to be like nice,” Murphy mentioned of Pratt. “I’ve acquired a few old-time gamers that he appears to be like like — you may see Alan Trammell in there, you realize what I imply? You simply type of take a look at him like that. I do not need to put that on the poor child, that is lots. However he is acquired an awesome look to him, an awesome physique language.”
That was one of many causes the Brewers jumped on Pratt within the 2023 Draft and gave him a $1.35 million bonus to get him signed, which was effectively over his slot worth. Pratt’s body makes him a really projectable power-hitting prospect. He additionally had among the many greatest bat-to-ball expertise and strike zone consciousness in his highschool Draft class. Scouts had been evaluating him to Orioles rising star Gunnar Henderson.
Even with all that, no, Murphy’s not saying Pratt has to play like a Corridor of Famer in Trammell. Simply that the 2 gamers have an analogous air about them.
“I do not imply skill-wise. I’ve by no means seen the child play,” Murphy mentioned. “I am simply saying the way in which he stands on the market. You may see what I am speaking about.”