Quinn Priester is one of the top young arms in the minors. But it wasn’t without challenges for the Cary native: ‘I put so much dang pressure on myself to be perfect right away.’

“I feel like I’ve always been the guy where it’s like, oh, he’s a Midwest guy, we don’t know how good he actually is,” Priester said. “Being from the Midwest, you don’t get the same publicity as maybe some of the warmer-state players. And then once people started to talk about it, it got to me a little bit, so I just need to reel it back in and I feel in a much better place going into this spring training.”