Richard Matic

FanGraphs Report

You see massive, power-hitting prospects all over the Yankees' rookie ball backfields and Matic is of that ilk, built like a high school edge rusher prospect. He has big power and is much more graceful and athletic than most players this size. Matic's hands fire from a kind of dead stop. His swing isn't all that long, but he's still often pretty late into the contact area. If he continues to get stronger, his ability to be mechanically simple and more consistently on time should grow. While Matic is admirably agile on defense right now, it's pretty realistic to project an athlete of his size to first base. For now, I've given him some chance to stay at third.