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Peyton Burdick, OF
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Scouting report
Perhaps no prospect from the 2019 draft buoyed industry opinion during his post-draft summer as much as Burdick, who leveled the Midwest League after he signed. He hit .407/.538/.729 and had more walks than strikeouts during his career at Wright State but only hit an impressive sum of homers as a junior. It's likely teams' draft models discounted Burdick slightly due to his draft day age, which was well over 22, and the Marlins were able to pick him up for well under slot in the third round. He went out and crushed Low-A, with his triple slash line (.308/.407/.542) largely reinforced by his underlying data (.276/.366/.490) and visual reports. Almost all eyeball reports of Burdick begin with a remark about his physicality. His forearms are as thick as support beams and help him generate huge power; the closest contemporary body comp here is Tyler O'Neill. Even though Burdick is a thicker guy, he takes a pretty athletic swing that demands a lot of his balance through contact, but he never appears out of control, even when he's swinging his hardest. He sometimes strides open in a way that impacts his ability to cover the outer third of the plate and his bat path works in such a way that Burdick tends to shoot pitches in the middle of the zone the opposite way, which makes me kind of scared about whether he'll be able to turn on inner-half big league fastballs. Wright State has an excellent program and college baseball in the Midwest is quite good, but we are talking about a small-school and an old-for-the-level performer here, a 24-year-old who hasn't played above A-ball yet. But Burdick also has middle-of-the-order power and has begun to lay a foundation of excellent performance. He was a 2020 Pick to Click who got no 2020 season to prove it. (Fall Instructional League)