If you’re looking for star power on the Florida Gators baseball roster, it’s hard to miss [autotag]Jac Caglianone[/autotag].
The 6-foot-1-inch, 250-pound Adonis set the record for home runs in a season (during the BBCOR era) last year with 33 and drove in 90 runs for the College World Series runner-ups. Caglianone pitches too — he’s in line to be Florida’s Sunday starter for the second year in a row — but it can’t be overstated how much respect the lefty demands as a hitter.
It makes sense then that D1Baseball ranked him second among first basemen in the country, behind only Wake Forest Nick Kurtz.
If you asked most scouts right now, Caglianone’s future is as a hitter. The raw power is at least a 70-grade tool, and he’s proven that he can handle the best pitching college has to offer. If he didn’t have to split practice time as a pitcher, he’d likely be the top first baseman in the draft class.
Caglianone is the headliner of this team. If his bat doesn’t play, Florida likely won’t be able to make up that lost offense. The same can’t be said if he doesn’t excel on the mound.
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