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[QUOTE="donniesyracuse, post: 3888681, member: 101"]
[HEADING=2][URL='https://www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/article/67720/the-call-up-wander-franco-debut-tampa-bay-rays/']The Call-Up: Wander Franco[/URL][/HEADING]
[I][B]“Scouting Report[/B]: Franco is clearly the best prospect in baseball. He’s a tier above the other elite hitting prospects. It’s more fair to compare him to recent number one prospects. He’s not quite as explosive a hitter as Vlad Jr., although his path through the minors was similarly brief and dominant and showed the same markers of an elite approach and hit tool. He doesn’t have Ronald Acuña’s power/speed combo, although he’s a perfectly fine runner and has added enough physical strength—check out that shot of him on the field in cutoff sleeves after the Rays won last year’s ALCS—that I wouldn’t be shocked if he hits 30 home runs now and again, especially given the recent improvements in his right-handed swing. Unlike Vlad and Acuña, we’ve never officially given him an OFP 80, and the window for us to do that is now closed, one supposes, but he could be one of the five best hitters in baseball pretty darn quickly. It’s a 3/4/5 type offensive profile, paired with the ability to play shortstop for at least a bit, and I’d expect him to eventually be above-average at second. A scout once told me that the shortest reports he writes are 2s and 8s. You can guess which one we think Franco is.”[/I]
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