Few prospects have rocketed up the charts as quickly as lefty flamethrower Brailyn Márquez, who shot to the top of the Cubs’ rankings and cracked the top 100 seemingly overnight in 2019. A series of setbacks with the canceled minor league season and a bout with COVID severely hampered his 2020 campaign, though he did make his MLB debut in the final game of the season with a brief outing.
Márquez’s fall may have been even faster, however, as he’s pitched a total of 30.2 innings in three seasons since.
All of those came in 2023 across four levels of the organization, with 23.