Scouts across baseball recognize Raul Mondesi’s prodigious tools, but retain reservations about his future until he enjoys success at the plate. Well-respected analyst Keith Law (who once worked for the Toronto Blue Jays player personnel department) had this to say about Mondesi while ranking him the no. 73 prospect in baseball:
As for his performance, Mondesi was overmatched by Double-A pitching and was victimized by the lack of an approach at the plate that haunted him last year in high-A as well. He was the only teenaged position player in the Texas League last year and didn’t belong there due to poor plate discipline and a mandate to try to bunt for hits that limits the times he can work the count and develop an approach.