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Yhoswar Garcia, OF

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Scouting report

Everything I have on Garcia either comes from the org or from what I've seen on video, which is less than I have on any other player on this list (or any other), which I think it is important for readers to know. Garcia first appeared in the electronic pages of FanGraphs in February of 2019 when Kiley and I wrote up exciting players we expected to sign that July. Instead, Garcia had to wait until March of 2020 to sign due to age misrepresentation, as he was a full year older than indicated. He's now the age of a junior college prospect and has very few in-game reps for a player that age. He is very talented, though, and has one of the better baseball builds in all of the minors, a physique that rivals Luis Robert's. Garcia has plus bat speed and is really short to the baseball despite lots of pre-swing noise in his hands. He's also fast enough to have a shot to be an impact center fielder, though I have no idea what his instincts out there are like. It's tough to line up a player like this on a list; I think I'd take a shot on his upside rather than the major league-ready middle relief/fifth starter/bench role players I have behind him here. But while you could argue Casey Martin is just as toolsy/risky, we have several years of college looks/data to support his tool profile that we don't for Garcia, who couldn't come to the US for any baseball activity in 2020 due to travel restrictions. (At-home dev)