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Ford Proctor, C
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It was a tough year for identifying breakout players because there were no statistical flares to indicate where to poke around for new information, but Ford Proctor played more baseball in 2020 (he first played in the Houston-area Constellation Energy League, then went to the alternate site in September, then played at instructs, then went to Australia to play winter ball) than perhaps anyone else in affiliated ball (or he will have by the end of the Aussie season), so his progression was quite noticeable. Offensively, he remains a contact-oriented lefty bat with an all-fields approach to contact and doubles pop. But while Proctor played shortstop at Rice and several infield positions in pro ball, he began converting to catcher in 2020 and made a remarkable amount of progress as a defender in a short period of time, going from "bad" to "hey, this might actually work" in a span of about four weeks during instructs according to the scouts who saw him there. He'll pop some mid-1.9s down to second base, too. The offensive bar at catcher is very low and Proctor has a chance to clear it by virtue of his bat-to-ball skills and ball/strike recognition. (Constellation Energy League, alt site, Fall Instructional League, Australian Baseball League)