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Anthony Volpe, IF
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Scouting report
There's no change here. The steadiest infield defender among the high schoolers in the 2019 Draft, Volpe compared similarly to Oakland A's shortstop Nick Allen when he was a high schooler. Volpe will likely be a plus shortstop defender -- his feet, hands, and actions are all plus, his range is average -- and he has good feel for contact, but he lacks both present strength and the physical projection that enables teams to anticipate strength will come. Keep in mind that this is what Peraza's scouting report read like last year, and he appears poised to make so much contact as to render his relatively modest raw power projection irrelevant. That path is the one Volpe could take to an everyday role, but it's more likely that he ends up a glove-first utility type. (At-home dev)