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2022 MLB Draft Prospects With The Loudest Scouting Tools at Perfect Game National
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The day after the 2021 draft ends, the first major high school showcase of the summer begins.
The Perfect Game National showcase brought in more than 300 of the top high school players in the country to Tropicana Field for a six-day showcase from July 13-18. These were the players who showed the best tools in different categories at the event, as well as other notable standouts that should give a good overview of the top high school players to watch for next year s draft.
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How much contact does Bobby Witt Jr. need to make to be a star? Even with a raucous 2021 spring performance on his ledger, there are reasonable concerns among pro scouts who saw him about how often he’s going to swing and miss. None of this is new. Witt swung and missed a lot during his showcase summer but his subsequent fall and spring were strong enough to make him the second overall pick of the 2019 draft class, and he’s the type of talent who’d be a threat to go first in most drafts.
His skillset compares quite closely to Trevor Story‘s. There are going to be some strikeouts here because Witt’s swing path makes it hard for him to get to pitches down and in, but his combination of defensive fit and game power make him a likely impact player anyway. He’s is a big, athletic young guy who moves so well that he makes the field look small when he’s running the bases or ranging for a grounder, and he is very likely to not only stay at shortstop but be quite good ther