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Jordan Walker, OF

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Scouting report

Walker's showcase summer look was among the most exciting in the entire 2020 draft class. He looked like a potential top 10 pick, then came out of the gate slow the following spring and never really had a chance to totally course correct because of the pandemic. Walker pitched and played shortstop during his pre-draft summer, and had among the best present raw power and pretty clearly the best raw power projection of any of the 2020 high schoolers because of his huge frame. With that frame came a perceived likelihood that he would eventually end up at third base and the possibility that he might need to move all the way over to first. Those seeming eventualities remain, but Walker also has really rare measureable power for someone his age and he's a remarkable athlete for how big he is. Physically, he might end up in Joey Gallo territory at maturity. The Cardinals sent him to the alt site after the draft and Walker began to separate himself from the other high-variance teenagers in the org there. He was an offseason "Pick to Click" and is a potential 35-plus homer force. (Alternate site)