FUNGOMAN JOURNAL

What if I told you 25 Breakthrough Series alumni were selected in the Draft this year? There are a few things you should know about MLB's initiatives to create opportunity for the next generation of baseball players. One of them includes incredible training. We've joined MLB's Urban Youth Academies in Compton, New Orleans, and Kansas City. Watch the latest with FungoMan and MLB Youth Academies.

Here they come, with speed too impressive to appreciate with the human eye, which is why we've curated a short list of this last week's most accomplished plays, brought to you with Statcast magic. At the top of the list is Jorge Alfaro, quick to his feet and swift to exchange the ball, throwing out Inciarte with a 1.85-second pop time and 89.3 mph throw (only the 3rd-hardest caught stealing throw in 2018). There's more where that came from. Check out our top 5 Statcasts from this week including: Alfaro nabbing Inciarte. Acuna's fantastic grab. Moran's eye-high homer. Taylor's 98.8 mph toss. Trout stealing 2, scoring.

MLB Youth Academy in Compton, CA just got a FungoMan, and it's up and running. "As a not-for-profit organization, the Urban Youth Academy aims to set the standard for baseball and softball instruction, teach and educate in Urban America, and enhance the quality of life in the surrounding communities." The MLB Youth Academy in Compton is doing exactly that. Watch our latest short video of our trip to the Urban Youth Academy facility to see the work Darrell Miller and his staff are doing with their group of talented, hungry players.