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Jeremiah Jackson, IF
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Scouting report
Jackson's swing has already been tailored for extreme lift and power. He only hit 29% of his balls in play on the ground in 2019 (down from 42% the year before) and averaged a 20 degree launch angle (second highest in the org behind Trent Deveaux), which would put him among the 10 steepest swingers among qualified big leaguers. He hit 23 homers in 65 games, and while that number was inflated by the Pioneer League's hitting environment, to the naked eye, he clearly has explosive hands and big power. Scouts are unanimously scared of this swing, with one going so far as to say it's "jacked up." They worry the lack of contact (he ran a 33% strikeout rate last year) won't enable him to get to that power against upper-level pitching, and that as Jackson slides down the defensive spectrum (he's likely to move to third base), it might make it tough for him to profile. That he has a chance to stay at short, or on the infield at all, and hit for big game power means Jackson's got an airplane hangar's ceiling, but he's a prospect of extreme risk.