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Jose Miranda, IF
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Scouting report
Miranda did not participate in the Twins' alternate site and instead went to instructs (he was not on the roster I have and I initially wrote here that he skipped instructs) and got at-bats in the Clemente League in Puerto Rico. He raked there against mostly poor pitching. Making contact and hitting the ball hard hasn't really been an issue for Miranda, though. He didn't post a strong 2019 statline (about .250/.300/.360 in the Florida State League) but his underlying data and the visual evaluations of his bat-to-ball acumen were still strong. He has the ability to move the barrel all over the zone, and he generates consistent doubles power despite being very short to the ball, which makes him tough to beat within the strike zone. It's possible he would have been picked in the Rule 5 had he been seen on video at the alt site or instructs, but that he was passed over forced me to do some soul-searching on a player that I had a 45 FV on a couple of years ago. Miranda does expand the zone too often, and even though he often finds ways to make contact anyway, doing so drastically impacts the quality of his contact. He also has some holes in his swing in the sense that Miranda can't do damage with pitches all over the zone, but he rarely swings and misses. There's also the defensive end of things where Miranda looks more and more like a shift-enabled 2B/3B type, and there are enough guys in that bucket who either hit for real power, or have better plate discipline or handedness, that Miranda should fall behind them. I still like Miranda as a bat-first role player but think it'll be more of the 1-ish WAR variety. (Fall instructional league, LigaPRC)