Wilmer Flores | SS | B – R | LoA | Age – 17 | Drafted – IFA 2007

Player Grades
Contact – 50 Now | 60 Future
Power – 40 | 60/65
Discipline – 40 | 55
Speed – 40 | 40
Defense – 40 | 50
Arm – 55 | 55
Instincts – 45 | 55
ETA – 2012
Final Grade – B+

Body Type – At 6’3 175 lbs. he is extremely tall and lanky. His body is still going to physically mature, but he alreayd has a strong longer half and will look to fill out the upper portion of his body.

Scouting Report – As Flores demonstrated as a 17-year-old baby in rookie ball last year belting 7 homeruns the dude has serious raw power. This is thanks to a beautiful swing you can see below.

*Credit to By Grand Design

As you can see from the picture Flores generates most of his power from extremely quick bat speed rather than brute strength. When his body fills out even more, the combination of the strength and bat speed will be absolutely terrifying and gives hope and understanding as to why he receives Miggy comps. He does not have much of a leg kick at all, but he is still able to rotate his hips on time. He has a slight uppercut in his swing that produce flyouts right now, but that will be homeruns when he gets older. Quite advanced at the plate for his age as he does an okay job with pitch selection and recognition, but it is something he will need to work on and that will undoubtedly get better with age and experience.

Defense – Not great defensively and will have to move off short so don’t expect the next ‘Derek Jeter’ like the papers said, but a move to 3rd base or left field would put him as at least a league average defender.

Best Case Outcome – Top-3 offensive left fielder

More Likely Outcome – Top-10 offensive left fielder