Malique Ziegler, OF. DOB: 9/8/1996. B-R, T-R. 6'2", 170 lbs. Drafted 2016 Round 22.
SS: .240/.329/.324, 9 2B, 5 3B, 5 HR, 26 SB, 9.5 BB%, 22.5 K%, 296 PA.
Malique Ziegler had a chance to rank a whole lot higher than this. Sometime around the middle of July, I had him easily top 20 and possibly top 10 in the Giants system. Then, the wheels just completely fell off his season. He hit .314 in the first half of the short season and just .149 in the second. His monthly splits were .359 in June, .258 in July and .141 in August. My theory is his lack of bulk just could not take the grind of playing professional baseball day in and day out, but that's just speculation on my part. The final peripheral numbers still look pretty good, so it could be just a wild random SSS swing. Maybe it was a nagging injury we don't know about. 2018 will be a critical year for one of the most tooled up players in the Giants system. He's going to have to prove the second half of a short season in S-K was a fluke and not his norm, plus he's going to have to prove he can stand up to the grind of a full season. The ceiling is spectacular, but so is the bust potential.
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