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Jung-Hoo Lee, OF

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Scouting report

Like Bo Bichette and Vladdy Guerrero, Lee has elite baseball lineage and seemed pre-ordained for stardom in Korea. His father, Jong-beom Lee, was a superstar five-tool pro ballplayer who stole as many as 84 bases in a single (124-game!) season and had several 20-plus homer years as well (go look at his 1997 line). Jung-hoo is more precocious than the elder Lee and is the first player in KBO history to go straight from high school to the top level of play. Since arriving in the league at age 19, Lee has hit for elite rates of contact and in his age-21 season began to hit for power (his early-career pop may have been masked by injury/recovery from shoulder surgery). He's had more walks than strikeouts the last two years while playing excellent right field defense. He also wields one of the sweetest-looking swings on the planet. His frame may limit his power ceiling, but his bat-to-ball skills are very promising and because his pro career began so early, Lee is on track to hit MLB free agency at age 24.