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Will Wilson, IF
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Scouting report
Wilson was an Angel for half a year before he was tethered to Zack Cozart's contract and traded to the Giants during the 2019 Winter Meetings, a prospect burp to clear budgetary room at the big league level. Except for his bat speed, Wilson was not a traditional first round talent based on visual evaluations. He's a relatively projectionless, medium-framed infielder. He lacked the strikeout-to-walk ratios usually associated with the analytically-driven first round college hitters but he was very young for a college player, still just 20 on draft day. Wilson's hands work great in the box and his swing is as compact as his frame, so he's tough to beat with velo. It's becoming more common for teams to seek profiles like Wilson's, in the Jedd Gyrko/Paul DeJong mold. Defensive issues that might disqualify a player in a vacuum are hidden by improved defensive positioning, and it lets teams shoehorn someone with more pop than is ordinary at a valuable position. This encapsulates Wilson, who is seeing time all over the infield. He doesn't have the pitch-tracking/hand-eye skills I typically associate with that kind of hitter but he's going to make a ton of contact because of how short his swing is, and a lot of it will be hard because of his bat speed. (Alternate site, Fall Instructional League)