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Taylor Trammell, OF
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Trammell brings a lot to the table and is likely to be a good role-playing outfielder even though his struggles with contact, which ultimately led to him falling out of the Top 100, feel scary after his month-long big league trial. Remember that he was once a 60 FV prospect on here, one who looked like a shockingly polished low-minors hitter with an old school leadoff man's skillset. I simply don't think he was seeing a high concentration of big league velocity at that time, and a significant weakness went unexposed until Trammell began to face upper-level competition and his performance changed. The skills foundation that made him a former top prospect remains: Trammell sees a lot of pitches and should run above-average OBPs, he runs well, and will either end up playing a viable center field, or a dynamic left field. I've typically projected Trammell to left due to lack of arm strength. Generally, I think most teams have a superior outfield defender who'll play every day in center and instead have been comp'ing Trammell's overall skill set to Brett Gardner's for a while, though his feel for contact clearly isn't as good as Gardner's. Trammell's swing makes it tough for him to get on top of high fastballs (though he's often really close) and he's also apt to swing over breaking balls. Basically his swinging strike rates against all pitches (he's seen about 500 of them already) are all below-average. I have him evaluated as a versatile platoon outfielder. (Alternate site)