A Statistical Profile on Braves outfield prospect Drew Waters

Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports Certain players in the minor leagues tend to buck traditional statistics, and you can see that in the way Drew Waters plays. The subject of our last article, William Contreras, had a more straightforward relationship between his numbers and scouting and showed a clear linear development. Drew does not have that. Rather than being a well-rounded player he does a lot of things very well and many things poorly making him an interesting case and one I don’t think we can really project with much certainty. His profile, as I’ll explain more below, doesn’t really have many players that are close comparisons. The questions to ask are whether his approach and profile can work at the major league level, and if not where will he have to change his game to take his career in another direction.

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