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- Updated: August 11, 2016
MILWAUKEE — They pitched hours and time zones apart on Thursday: the mentor, Matt Garza, in Milwaukee, and the mentee, Luis Ortiz, in Jackson, Miss., for Double-A Biloxi. The two have known each other for years, but until Aug. 1, they pitched in different organizations. That changed when the Brewers acquired Ortiz from the Rangers as part of the Jonathan Lucroy trade.
Suddenly, the two were Brewers teammates.
“He’s real pumped about it,” Garza said. “He’s a good kid. He knows what he wants, and I told him, ‘It’s an opportunity you can’t pass up and you can’t take lightly. This is not high school or summer ball. This is life now.'”
They met in 2013, when Garza was home in Fresno, Calif., at the start of free agency and Ortiz was starting his senior year at nearby Sanger High School in the inland suburbs. A member of Ortiz’s family ran into one of Garza’s former football coaches and asked whether the veteran pitcher would take a meeting with the young Draft prospect.
When they met, Ortiz asked whether he could join Garza in his …
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