It’s been since Opening Day where a pitcher and the reliever from the same team share the top honor of the day. Suarez makes his second NL Top Pitcher of the Day mention ( April 20th ) and so does Will Hibbs (below) in teaming-up to shutout Greensboro (Miami) last night. The Venezuelan southpaw is no doubt, my favorite under the radar prospect, but hasn’t received the touting (IMO) he deserves. He hit my radar during his third season in the VSL, where he went 5-4 with a 1.56 ERA over 80.2 innings and a ridiculous 78:1 K:BB ratio. The then 18 year-old narrowly missed being the #1 UTR Organizational All-Star in 2014 , and I firmly stamped him “too intriguing to dismiss”. I strongly felt an assignment to short-season Williamsport (NYPL) would fall on Suarez to begin the 2015 season and disappointment followed. He was sent to extended Spring training and then off to the Gulf Coast League where things slowed down, but not his performance. He arrived in the New York-Penn League in 2016 and continued to post very good numbers; and again remained on the down-low by not cracking any of the Phillies prospect rankings. Everybody is watching how he would perform in his first full season and the report card thus far displays an A minus. Last night the Top UTR Pitcher for April matched his career-high with 10 strikeouts over 7.2 innings, his longest outing since arriving in the U.S.