Pencil in Violet Wood Violet Wood CF/OF Edina | 2029 MN at or near the top of any lineup, and you’re highly likely to have a baserunner in the first inning. Wood is a classic slap hitter and center fielder, who had a .469 on-base percentage in her most recent travel ball season, and her speed serves her well both on the basepaths and in the outfield. She can split the outfield gaps with line drives for extra bases when defenses overplay the slap, and will even leg out an inside-the-park home run. Wood has excellent range in center, getting on her horse to track down long fly balls over her head, and she will fire the ball back to the infield — her overhand throw has reached 66 miles per hour — to double off runners who assumed the ball would drop. She worked her way back from a torn meniscus and is active in her local community, writing letters to people in nursing homes and leading softball camps for 6U and 8U players.