2021 Prospects

[Fan_since_Boggs]

How's Feltman doing?

OK, but not exceptional. He was recently promoted to AAA. When he was drafted, we were hoping he would develop into a future closer. At this point, he looks more like a middle inning reliever, a decent relief pitcher, but not great. I don't think he will be protected on the 40 man roster next year. Maybe the Phillies will take him in the Rule 5 draft, they need relief arms and Dombrowski drafted Feltman.

[A Red Sox fan named Hugh]

Drafting comes down to the scouting department, not to the GM.

Exactly.

[mvp 78]

A big game from Seabold, 6 IP, 1 walk, 10 strikeouts, 0 runs, 1 hit. Could Seabold get a spot start at some point with the Red Sox this year? If he follows this game up with another solid performance, he will probably be on the Red Sox's radar. In fact, it might make sense to move on from G.Richards (move him to the bullpen to see if he can be an effective 1 inning reliever), not only will Sale be returning soon, but Houck and now Seabold provide excellent depth, sufficient depth that they can proceed without using Richards in the rotation.

Downs continues to be out-of-whack (BA is now .195) with another 0 for 4 game with 3 strikeouts.

A solid Double A start from Murphy: 6 IP, 2 ER, 1 walk, 8 strikeouts.

Good news on the pitching front. Murphy's numbers in Greenville weren't lighting the world on fire, but you can't just judge a player on their stat line.

[mvp 78]

@PeteAbe
Marcelo Mayer has 3 plate appearances in his first pro game. 13 pitches, 12 balls, three walks.

[moonslav59]

@PeteAbe
Marcelo Mayer has 3 plate appearances in his first pro game. 13 pitches, 12 balls, three walks.

Fear by opposing pitchers already.

[A Red Sox fan named Hugh]

Fear by opposing pitchers already.

The opposing pitcher walked 6 of the 15 batters he faced including the last four. The guy couldn't throw strikes, which is not uncommon.

Meanwhile, Jay Groome and Nick Yorke deserve a promotion.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

J.Downs was 0 for 4 with 4 strikeouts! His batting average is down to .188. Brutal.

[mvp 78]

J.Downs was 0 for 4 with 4 strikeouts! His batting average is down to .188. Brutal.

He needs the offseason

[mvp 78]

Outfielder Devlin Granberg went 2-for-4 with a double (10), and two RBI (28). Granberg has slashed .311/.333/.510over 156 plate appearances since his promotion to Double-A.

Can the hit tool carry him?

[moonslav59]

On the farm, today...

Sale 4.2 & 0 ER
Feltman 2.0 0H 0 ER for the win
Downs 0-4 with 4 K's (.188 BA)
DeShields 0-5
Munoz 2-5
Ockimey 1-2 w 2 BBs

AA
V Santos 6 IP 4 H 1 ER 1BB 9K
Potts 2-5 (HR & 4 RBI)
Rosario 2-4 (3B)
Castellano 2-5 (2B)
Granberg 2-4 (BB)
Rivera & Matheny both 2-4.

[moonslav59]

BTV still gives Downs a high value rating. Perhaps the next update will ding him down a notch.

Here are their current values for our prospects:

48 Casas
45 Duran
24 Mayer
20 Downs
11 Jimenez
7 Yorke
6 Mata
5 Bello, Jordan
4 Groome. Gonzalez, Seabold
3 Winckowski, McDonough, Rosario, R Hernandez, Bonaci, Decker, Lugo, Ward
2 Bleise, Potts, FValdez, Wong, Murphy, Gonzalez OF, Lopez, Howlett, Bazardo, Cannon, Chacon, Davis, Rafaela
1-1.1 Song, Feliz, Kavadas, Marcano, Vaughn, Celluci, Liu, Wu-Yelland

You really notice the lack of mid ranged prospects between 8-19. Maybe some below 8 will rise up in the next adjustments.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

Kutter Crawford continues to look like a guy who will get serious consideration for the 40 man roster: 5 IP, 2 ER, 0 walks, 7 strikeouts. He continues his trend of excellent ratios--he doesn't walk many batters. I wonder how he profiles as a reliever?

I was thinking this morning about how much soxprospects.com site kind of sucks. No updates on K.Crawford and his future as a reliever or starter and nothing on Downs -- what is he doing wrong? How are the Red Sox trying to fix him? Actually, soxprospects has a lot of useful information but they don't have some of that inside information that I would like to know about....alas.

Bello continues to be interesting, very interesting: 5.1 IP with 11 strikeouts! He clearly has dominant stuff but he is still learning how to pitch. He continues to demonstrate an impressive ceiling, probably the best starting pitcher prospect in the Red Sox system.

[Bellhorn04]

Quite possible that other teams were asking about Crawford and Bello at the deadline, and Bloom wouldn't give them up...

[mvp 78]

Nick Yorke's fifth home run of the season brings his hit streak up to 19 games.

[mvp 78]

Quite possible that other teams were asking about Crawford and Bello at the deadline, and Bloom wouldn't give them up...

I would’ve traded Kutter.