Milwaukee – As a group of visits met in the American Family Field press box on Monday, the stadium guide watched the diamond and tried to identify the striker in a Blue Dodger t-shirt taking thunderous swings during a afternoon stick practice.
“I don’t know which player is,” said the tourist guide.
A well -informed dodger fan in the group acknowledged that it was not at all a large actor – at least not yet.
“He’s Dino Ebel’s son,” said the fan. “It will be a first choice of draft next week.”
Brady Ebel may not yet be a familiar name around sport, but in the circles of Dodger, the rise of the interior field player of Corona, and the 17-year-old son of the long-standing coach of the third base, Dino Ebel, has long been a proud organizational history in the making.
Six years ago, Brady and his younger brother Cadet Trey (a 16 -year -old junior in a Corona team in charge last season), began scoring at Dodger stadium with their father after the Dodgers hired him far from the Angels at the start of the 2019 season.
Brady Ebel could be one of the three stars of Corona High baseball to be selected in the first round of the MLB amateur draft next week.
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At the time, they were like many other children of players and staff that dodgers adapted to the family would welcome the stadium. Not yet adolescents, Ebel’s sons would take bullets on the ground and hunt in the outside field during stick training before the start of the Dodger games.
Now, these are both exceptional prospects with major university commitments (Brady in the state of Louisiana, Trey in Texas A&M) and the future expected in the ball.
On Sunday, Brady is expected to be one day 1, and most likely in the first round, to choose from the recovery of the MLB – a climb born from his own physical gifts, but also helped by a childhood spent to grow in the presence of great league players.
“I am so blessed, me and my brother,” said Brady this week, after having accompanied his father during the recent road trip of the Dodgers in Milwaukee. “It’s my favorite thing to do. Come to the stadium with my father. Go better. And watch the guys go there. Because I know I’m going to be here soon. That’s what I’m going to do. “
The physical features that make Brady a coveted perspective are obvious: its 6 -foot 3 -inch and 190 pound frame; his left -handed and smooth compact swing; His defensive sensation and his arm of throwing strong on the left side of the inner field.
What distinguishes Brady from the typical prospects of the school that populate the draft paintings at this time of the year is his unique education in the game, after having absorbed countless lessons on his trips to work with his father.
“Watching these guys do it every day, just being able to be in the clubhouse and walking and seeing how the guys act, helped me a lot, me and my brother,” said Brady, shortly after the pepper balls everywhere in the outside field is held at the Brewers house. “I take parts from everyone.”
Corona High Infielders (on the left): the second goal player Trey Ebel, the stopst stop Billy Carlson and the third goal player Brady Ebel.
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The Ebel sounds first had an overview of the life of the major league in Anaheim, amazing as young boys to superstars such as Mike Trout and Albert Pujols during the Dino passage over 12 years on the staff of coaches of the angels.
When their father was hired by the Dodgers, their first -person education continued in Chavez Ravine, where many Dodgers staff and staff were amazed at their own development in coveted recruits and MLB draft prospects.
“As a dad, I love it, because I spend more time with them, and I watch them improve,” said Dino. “The process of watching them work with Major League players is something that I will never forget.”
Several days in recent sums, the pair was a constant presence at the stadium.
There have been basic rules to follow, as Dino noted: “Stay out of everyone’s way.
The fundamental lessons they have learned, watching the players hit the cage in the capture of the balls at the first base during the field exercises, to speak to other members of the coaches staff during the quiet sections of the day, were endless. The fingerprints he left on their game were deep.
“The process, the approach, the work habits, how to respect the game, how you do your job every day,” said Dino. “For them to see this, guys at the top of the elite superstars chain in the game … that’s what I saw them take in their game. Try something different. Listening to what the players tell them in the cage, on the field.”
Brady, for example, has become an observer passionate about the work of Freddie Freeman in the stick in recent years.
“There are things he grew up by doing so that he continues to do,” said Brady about Freeman. “Different exercises. Keep your hands inside. Driving the ball in the middle. I have been doing this since I was 8 years old. And he’s 30, everything is the fact. It’s the simple and the little things.”
While the Ebel boys were old, Dino noticed how they would return to the house of the stadium, would go to a training field the next day and reproduce specific exercises and techniques which they had witnessed the previous night.
“It’s special enough for me, as a father, to look at them go through this process,” said Dino. “And then, as a coach, how they improve every day, they go out here.”
Such roots have not been lost for assessors. Most Brady’s screening reports note his advanced approach and his discipline on the plate. The editorial staff of MLB Pipeline of him before the draft praised his IQ of baseball, and that “his work experience with large leaguers for a long time was clearly exposed” as a preparation player.
In the latest America baseball simulation project, Brady is expected to go to the 33rd row of Boston Red Sox – where he could join the teammates of Corona Seth Hernandez and Billy Carlson as the most written trio of high school teammates in the history of the event.
The seven imminent choices subsequently, however, are the Dodgers, a team that would not need an introduction to a player who grew before their eyes.
“It would be really cool, just to be with the organization of my father,” said Brady about the end of the club. “We will see what’s going on on the day of the draft. You never know. “
