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BALLER MOVE: Target Between Rounds 10 and 12
ANALYSIS: The Miami Marlins have the potential to put up one of the best young outfields in baseball for the next several years. We’re all familiar with Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich has garnered a ton of attention, but 23-year-old Marcell Ozuna is still flying under the radar. Ozuna’s skillset offers you both power and speed. Although he was a bit streaky last season, Ozuna enjoyed a breakout 2014 campaign, demonstrating that the talent on display during his three 20-HR minor league seasons could carry over into his major league career.
Ozuna ended the 2014 season with a .269 batting average, 23 HR and 85 RBI. He’s stolen as many as 17 bases in a single minor league season, but so far we haven’t seen him do much damage on the basepaths as a big-leaguer. As last season’s extremely high 16.8% HR/FB rate implies, Ozuna can eventually mature into a perennial 25-to-30 HR hitter, but his high strikeout rate may limit his overall future batting average. Expect him to be drafted between the 10th and 12th rounds in the average 12-team standard league.
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