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Miguel Hiraldo, IF

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Scouting report

After his dominant 2018 in the DSL, the Blue Jays pushed the physically mature Hiraldo right past the GCL and sent him to the Appy League at age 18; there he hit .300/.348/.481 with 28 extra-base hits in 56 games. He has a short, high-effort swing, and his hands load high and take a curt, direct path to the ball with plus bat speed that Hiraldo generates with effort and violence. It's a swing-happy, pull-heavy approach to contact that would ideally become more polished, but there's rare bat speed and vertical plate coverage here, so Hiraldo has a talent-based shot to both hit and hit for power. Like Moreno, he also had a fairly relevant uptick in his high-end exit velocities in the Fall, on par with what Riley Adams was capable of in 2019, now tied for the highest in the system. Hiraldo is stocky and strong in general, let alone for his age, and even though he's playing lots of shortstop right now, I think he'll end up as a shift-aided second or third baseman at physical maturity. He has physical ability to profile every day in that sort of role but the approach needs to develop. (Fall Instructional League)