NSH AUG PR: Rock 'n' Roller Coaster of Emotions: The Short Tale of Edgardo Molina

New then-Madison GM Adam Brisske was ecstatic. Edgardo Molina, one of his top targets in the IFA period of 2027 had signed. For $2.1 million he was getting a premier power hitting teenage outfielder. OSA rated him at 4 stars, but the team scout had him at 4.5 stars. With a 20 POW and a 14 EYE, he was exactly the kind of bat the organization was missing.

Fast forward to before the draft and GMAB was looking around his organization. There stood out Edgardo sitting in the international complex. Those ratings, still fresh on his mind, just sitting there, the potential staring him in the face.

GMAB made the move. He put the 16 year old on the Rookie league team, and sat back waiting to brag about the ballsy move that paid off at the next GM meetings.

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.264/.292/.370. only 4 home runs. Where did the power go? 3 walks to 48 strikeouts. He had broken him. He was doomed. The new scouting report was not kind. 1 star from OSA. At least the team scout still saw something. 3 stars. There's still hope. But his eye was gone, The contact was gone. All that remained was that prodigious power.

GMAB had already thrown in the towel, but Molina was the best prospect to start in RF in Rookie league again in 2028.

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His 2nd pro season, at age 17, started off with a bang. 2 home runs in season opener. Half of last seasons total. 2 games later, another one. 2 games later...

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5 games in he's banged 4 dongers and is batting .368. GMAB tells his fiance all about the hot start and she walks away without saying anything. She's right, he thinks to himself, This could just be a fluke, better to stay quiet. But while GMAB was swinging trades at the major league level, he kept getting daily alerts on his phone to see how Molina did each day. A donger nearly every other day. More walks. Still strikes out a lot, but who cares? He's raking. GMAB can live with the whiffs. 

As we enter September, GMAB could no longer hold it in. In a front office meeting discussing the team's future, there was only one name on his lips.

.366/.429/.745, 15 home runs, 38 RBIs. GMAB rubbed the stat sheet in Pedro's face.

"I was the only one that still believed in him!" said Adam (he didn't). "I knew all along he would be great!" (he really didn't)

Watching the young man's short career so far has been a wild ride so far, and no matter where it ends, one thing is for sure, GM Brisske is not ready to get off.