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Saving grace: Athleticism, center-field profile 19 pick in the 2020 draft (Harvard-Westlake High School, California) Likeliest outcome: Starting left-side infielder with middle-of-the-order possibilities 2. Whether or not Mauricio gets there - and whether or not he sticks at short or has to slide elsewhere, possibly to third - is a ways off. He has oodles of athleticism a tall, lanky frame that he could add weight to, giving him above-average power plenty of dexterity (he's a switch-hitter) some established aptitude against pro-caliber pitching and, potentially, an All-Star ceiling. That's especially true of those like Mauricio. Teenage shortstops are often the baseball equivalent of that. Scouting report: Zora Neale Hurston once wrote that ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Ronny Mauricio, SSĪcquired: International amateur free-agent signing (Dominican Republic)įault line: The limits of one's imagination Now, let's get on to the top five prospects in the New York Mets system.
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Remember, that this is more of an art than a science, and that the write-ups matter more than the rankings themselves. These rankings were compiled by talking to industry folks - scouts, analysts, and other evaluators - and include a touch of our own evaluative biases. For those top five prospects, you'll find a quick summation of their pros (their saving grace, if one will) and their cons (their fault line), as well as beefier report and our attempt to peg their "likeliest outcome." In every article in this series, you'll find a team's top five prospects as well as five others we felt like including, either because of their promise or some other reason. First, we'll exclude anyone who graduated by exhausting their rookie eligibility second, we'll replace them with draftees or other worthy prospects and third, and lastly, we'll present the information in a new format. Our rankings will essentially be the same as they were last winter with a few changes.
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As such, we've opted against overthinking this. It doesn't help that some teams opted against sharing video and data from their alternate-site camps with the rest of the league. The lack of a minor-league season makes that more of a challenge this year. As such, we're going to spend the winter evaluating every team's farm system. There's no law that prevents us from ranking minor-league players in addition to their big-league counterparts.
#NEW YORK METS SHORTSTOP FREE#
Already this winter, we've sized up the 60 best free agents, both on an overall and positional basis. The arrival of the offseason means that it's time to rank stuff.