SS/RHP Masyn Winn, Kingwood HS [TX]
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DoB: 3/21/2002. B/T: R/R
Commitment: Arkansas.
Few players in this draft class are more fun to watch than Masyn Winn, and he's likely the top two-way player in the class overall. He had a bit of an up and down summer, at one point getting sent home from the PDP League showcase (presumably for bad behavior), but he exploded onto the scene with an all-around elite performance at the World Wood Bat Association showcase in the fall that could be considered as the best single performance of any prospect at any showcase this year. Though he stands just 5'11", he is an electric athlete with immense upside on both sides of the ball and he's one of my favorite prospects around, makeup questions aside.
Let's start with Winn as a pitcher. Despite his small size, his electric right arm allows him to sit in the low to mid 90's regularly and reach back for the upper 90's with his fastball. He adds a relatively inconsistent curveball, but when it's on, oh man is it tough to hit with excellent, tight break that makes it look like he's pulling a string on it. His changeup is a bit more raw, as expected, but he's shown surprising feel for it at times and that gives him the chance for three plus pitches. He throws with a bit of effort, which you might expect for a skinny 5'11" kid touching 98, but he's athletic and is still able to show average command even at this point with plenty of arm speed.
At the plate, Winn has significantly more power than you'd expect from just looking at him. His exceptionally quick hands enable the barrel to explode towards the ball with some loft, and he projects to add more as he irons out his hit tool. For now, he shows a decent amount of swing and miss, but he can get the barrel moving so quickly that some minor mechanical adjustments might enable those hands to help his hit tool play up a little bit, if that makes sense. Defensively, he is, you guessed it, raw, but he has a plus arm that will keep him on the left side of the infield and his quick-twitch athleticism gives him a good shot to stick at shortstop.
With all his upside, it's important to remember that Winn is extremely raw as a player. His offspeed pitches are both relatively inconsistent, as is his command, and he comes with significant reliever risk due to his size, build, and effort in his delivery. On the other side of the ball, he hasn't yet proven he can make consistent contact against higher level pitching, and that's a bit more tolerable when you have a projectable 6'4" kid than a skinny 5'11" kid. Then of course, there are the makeup questions, though I honestly have no idea what he did to get sent home from the event and it might be no big deal. All of this said, make no mistake of Winn's upside; it's tremendous.
Personally, I'd like to see Winn head to Arkansas and play both ways. His upside is so high on both sides of the ball, and he also carries so much risk on both sides of the ball, that three years of figuring out which one gives him the better chance could be hugely beneficial. On the other hand, ditching one or the other could help him focus on refining his game. On the mound, he has a shot to be a real impact starter, or his fastball/combination could work really well out of the bullpen. As a hitter, he could hit 20-25 home runs per season with decent on-base percentages in a kind of right handed Rougned Odor kind of way. As for draft position, he could really go anywhere from the comp round to the second round if he's signable, but he could be expensive to pry away from that commitment.
Pitching at the WWBA
Batting and fielding at the PG National over the summer
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