Coming in at No. 27 on our preseason top 30 prospect list, center fielder Kingston Liniak has a frame and skill set that can only be summarized by one of the most overused words in player evaluation — toolsy.
After just a couple hundred at-bats in rookie ball, we know about as much about Liniak as we would about most prep bats with his profile. Quite simply, this is a potentially high-ceiling player but he is not going to come to fruition overnight. His introduction to professional baseball hardly produced a sparkling stat line, as he struck out 29.