Travis Bazzana - Prospect Profile

Joel Reuter - Bleacher Report - July 7th: "Bazzana hit .407/.568/.911 with 28 home runs this spring while showcasing an advanced approach with more than twice as many walks (76) as strikeouts (37). He may be limited to second base defensively, but his pure hitting ability gives him an extremely high floor and All-Star ceiling."

Ayrton Ostly - USA Today - July 4th: "Bazzana, a native of Sydney, Australia, would be the second Oregon State player taken No. 1 overall in the MLB Draft following Baltimore Orioles' Adley Rutschman in 2019."

Baseball America - July 1st: "A 6-foot, 199-pound lefthanded hitter and second baseman, Bazzana’s offensive profile is built around his elite bat-to-ball skills. He has an unusual-looking swing with a deep bat tip behind his shoulder and a sizable leg kick, but he has always found the barrel at a high clip and produced an 84% contact rate in his three seasons with the Beavers."

MLB.com - July 1st: "The left-handed-hitting infielder is compact and strong with plenty of bat speed. He has an advanced approach at the plate with a ton of raw power he taps into, though he can occasionally be susceptible to offspeed stuff on the outer half. He’s proven he can hit lefties as well as righties. A plus runner, he’s a legitimate base-stealing threat."

Prospects Live - May 29th: "His spray chart is a thing of beauty, utilizing the entire field with a compact, line drive swing with a ton of bat speed that is meant to do serious damage. The power has ramped up, especially to his pull-side, and he's begun to cover the upper portion of the strike zone with his swing, too."

Keith Law - The Athletic - May 22nd: "His plate discipline might be the best in the class, as he rarely chases anything outside the zone and doesn’t whiff much in or out of the zone or on any single pitch type. He’s listed at 6-feet, 199, but is probably a bit shorter than that, and what you see is likely what you get — there’s no projection here, so you have to believe his present hit and power tools are good enough."

Kiley McDaniel - ESPN - May 8th: "The Australian-born Bazzana is no slouch here, as a plus runner with plus power also having an enormous spring but with a different sort of frame than Condon. He is hitting well over .400 and set the Oregon State single-season home run record last weekend."

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