Canadian outfielder Tristan Pompey “pumped” to join Marlins organization
Six years ago, Tristan Pompey tweeted that Marlins Park was a stadium on his must-see list.
He might be able to check that one off soon enough.
The 21-year-old outfielder from Mississauga, Ont., was drafted by the Marlins on Tuesday in the third round of the MLB draft. And while Pompey doesn’t remember what prompted that tweet from his 15-year-old self in the first place, it made him chuckle as he retweeted it hours after he was drafted.
“That was six years ago, I honestly have no clue why I wrote it,” Pompey said with a laugh in a phone interview with The Canadian Press. “Someone had brought it up from my archives and I thought, ‘that’s funny.’ It’s funny to think about that now.”