It would be unfair to say Jakob Marsee entered the season completely off prospect radars, but it's not that much of a stretch. When FanGraphs.com ranked the top 57 prospects in the Marlins system coming into the season, Marsee just barely cracked the top half of the list, ranking 27th . When BaseballProspectus.com ranked the top 500 prospects in baseball for Dynasty back in May, Marsee didn't even make the list.

So, yeah, his 1.414 OPS in his first 13 MLB games comes as a bit of a shock, you could say. Of course, it would come as a shock even if Marsee were one of the most hyped prospects in baseball. Over the past decade, Pete Alonso and Davis Schneider are the only players with an OPS of at least 1.300 over their first 13 MLB games. Lower the bar to a 1.200 OPS in the fi

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