Brito’s different signings embrace the present Dodgers starter Julio Urias, who received 20 video games in 2021; the mercurial outfielder Yasiel Puig, who’s Cuban; pitchers Ismael Valdez, Joakim Soria, Antonio Osuna, Victor Gonzalez and Dennys Reyes; shortstop Juan Castro; and the outfielder Karim Garcia. One other of his finds, Bobby Castillo, a transformed third baseman often called Babo, taught Valenzuela find out how to throw a screwball.
“I’m not mendacity to you,” Brito instructed The Los Angeles Instances in 2011. “Inside every week, Fernando was throwing the screwball pretty much as good as Babo.”
“For a lot of, many prospects from Mexico, he was a God,” Jaime Jarrín, a Dodgers’ Spanish-language broadcaster since 1959, instructed Baseball America final 12 months. “They cherished him as a result of he protected them.”
Mike Brito was born on Aug. 21, 1934, in Cuba. As a catcher, beginning in 1955, he performed three seasons within the decrease tiers of the Washington Senators’ minor league system, then a number of seasons within the Mexican League.
After retiring, he moved to Los Angeles, the place he discovered work as a truck driver and arrange an grownup newbie league that he additionally performed in.
Scouting turned his approach to keep in baseball. “Because of God, I turned a scout within the Mexican League,” he mentioned in a brief video profile, “The White Hat & Wild Horse: The Scout Who Discovered Puig.” When he was requested by Dodgers Basic Supervisor Al Campanis to work for the group, he recalled pondering, “It’s such as you discover a man within the desert and ask him if he desires a glass of water.
