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Ezequiel Tovar, IF
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Scouting report
Tovar's prospect foundation is his defense. Already at 18 he was a complete defensive player, both instinctive and fundamentally sound, as well as flashy and acrobatic. He was also so lacking in strength and physical maturity that he needed to ditch switch-hitting because his lefty swing was not viable in games. The requisite physicality has started to come, though, and Tovar actually hooked a ball out of Chase Field late during instructs. He's on the same developmental timeline as other infiedlers in this system (Diaz, Carreras) but is a couple years younger. There remains risk that he only develops into a Dixon Machado type of player, but he has a real carrying tool in the defense and the badly-needed muscle discussed in last year's report looks likes it's starting to arrive. (Fall Instructional League)