Remember back in October when the Marlins had this gala celebratory press conference over winning the bidding for highly touted Cuban free agent, 5-9, 160-pound outfielder Victor Victor Mesa, and his younger brother Victor Mesa? They gave Victor Victor a bonus of $5.25 and Victor $1 million. “The bottom line is we feel as though we got two of the top players on the international market,” Marlins co-owner Derek Jeter said at the time. If that was true, then the international market must be pretty weak because the general consensus of scouts is that Victor Victor can’t play. “I don’t understand how anybody could give $5.25 million to a player who’s 5-9, 160 pounds unless that player is either a speed demon or a Jose Altuve,” said one National League scout who just got done watching the Marlins’ Double-A Jacksonville team where Victor Victor was hitting .220. “This guy is neither. He’s got just average speed, he doesn’t drive the ball and he’s just average in the outfield. Plus, he’s no kid. He’s 23 years old!” Said another scout: “My report on him was ‘average runner, instincts average, a 25th rounder if he’d been in the draft.’ So it appears Victor Victor Mesa (his brother hasn’t even played yet) is going to go down as another highly-touted Cuban, along with Hector Olivera ($6.25M from the Dodgers in 2014), Rusney Castillo ($72.5M from the Red Sox in ’14, Yasmany Tomas ($68.5M from the Diamondbacks in ’14, Yusniel Diaz ($15.5M from the ‘Dodgers in ’15), who got undeserved big money based purely on hype. (Scouts say Diaz, whom the Dodgers traded to the Orioles last summer in the Manny Machado trade and who’s hitting .223 with just 3 HR at Double A Bowie is also developing a “can’t play” label. “One of the problems we’ve got in baseball today is that too many talent evaluators are considering being Cuban as a sixth tool,” said an NL scouting director … The strikeout epidemic in baseball just gets more wearisome. Last Wednesday, the Brewers struck out 24 times over 14 innings but still managed beat the Astros, 63. It was seventh time this year a team has struck out 20 or times in a game which, according to the Elias Bureau, is already an all-time record.