2024 Prospects

[moonslav59]

Assuming no roster additions and the loss of Pivetta, Jansen, Martin, Anderson, O'Neill, Cooper & Smith, this might be the 2025 26 and 40 man roster:

26
SP: Houck, Gio, Bello, Crawford, Whitlock/Criswell/Fitts
RP: Hendriks, Slaten, Bernardino, Weissert, Fulmer, Wink, 2 from Whit/Cris/Fitts
C: Wong & McGuire (Teel?)
1B: Casas
2B: Grissom & DHam
SS: Story & Romy (Mayer?)
3B: Devers
LF: Duran (CF)
CF: Rafaela (SS/2B) (Anthony?)
RF: Abreu (CF/LF) (Anthony?
DH: Yoshida & Refsnyder (LF/RF)

The 40 (14 in the minors)
SP: Perales, Wikelman, Bastardo (Rule 5)
RP: I Campbell, Kelly, Booser, Guerrero (Rule 5) or (Mata/Uwasawa/Horn?)
C: Teel (?not rule 5) or Jh. Garcia (Rule 5) or Heineman
1B/3B: Dalbec or Kavadas (Rule 5)
IF: Mayer (not Rule 5) & Yorke (Rule 5)
OF: Anthony (not Rule 5) & Castro and or Lugo (both Rule 5)

[mvp 78]

They seem to not drop some guys as much as others, for some reason. Lugo had just one bad year after rising to #14.

Guys like Castro, Paulino and Jordan seem to drop more slowly.

I know they get more behind the scenes information, so I wonder what is different from '22 to '23 to '24? I've asked specific questions about players to them in the past and they haven't really addressed it.

[mvp 78]

Great points.

Speaking of age 22...

Sox top prospects by ages:

18: Cespedes 6, Arias 21
19: Zanetello 8, Jo Garcia 18
20: Anthony 1, Bleis 5 (missed time), E R-C 16
21: Mayer 2, Perales 4, K Campbell 10, Castor 12, Paulino 14
22: Teel 3, Meidroth 11, Lugo 13, Wikelman 15, Yorke 17
23: Sandlin 9
24: Fitts 7

Looks like a pretty good mix.

RED= ML Ready or should be by 2025.

With how Perales is throwing, did you consider making him red?

[moonslav59]

With how Perales is throwing, did you consider making him red?

I did, but thought more likely Sept '25 at the earliest.

No issue with thinking 2025.

[moonslav59]

Woo won 8-2
Alexander 6 IP 2H 0ER 2BB 4K
Sogard and Yorke homered and had 2 hits, each.
Kavadas and Meidroth got their daily BB.
Yoshida 1-4 in rehab

POR is losing 5-4
Perales 2.1 IP 2H 1ER 1BB 3K
K Campbell 1-2 w 2BB and 2B
Anthony, Mayer and Teel on base once each.

GRE was smoked 12-1, with aa runs allowed in the 7th and 8th.
Paez 5 IP 2H 1ER 0BB 8K
Monegro 2IP 5H 9runs 4ER 4BB 2K

SAL scored 3 in the 8th to go up 7-4, but now are down 8-7
Zanetello 0-5 w 4Ks

Cespedes 2-3 (1.009 OPS) in an FCL win.

[5GoldGloves:OF,75]

Adjustments to his swing have catapulted Kristian Campbell on a fast-path -- like outfield teammate Roman Anthony, Campbell is now in Portland, but with a year of college ball under his belt.

Campbell is 22 and bats right-handed. Anthony is 20 and bats left-handed. The Red Sox are no rush to promote Anthony, their #1 prospect, until he masters his current level; at this point would it be surprising if Campbell progresses to Boston first?

[moonslav59]

Adjustments to his swing have catapulted Kristian Campbell on a fast-path -- like outfield teammate Roman Anthony, Campbell is now in Portland, but with a year of college ball under his belt.

Campbell is 22 and bats right-handed. Anthony is 20 and bats left-handed. The Red Sox are no rush to promote Anthony, their #1 prospect, until he masters his current level; at this point would it be surprising if Campbell progresses to Boston first?

We finally have RHB looking good, on the farm.

[Larry Cook]

Yorke with a grand slam today!
Anthony with a tater today
Coffey, Garcia and Gonzalez with taters for Greenville. Greenville had an epic comeback today
Zanetello with a tater today

[moonslav59]

Yorke with a grand slam today!
Anthony with a tater today
Coffey, Garcia and Gonzalez with taters for Greenville. Greenville had an epic comeback today
Zanetello with a tater today

We can call these kids the "Tater Tots."

[moonslav59]

Fitts had a bad game:
5.1 IP, 4H 4ER 5BB 4K
Besides Yorke's granny, Yoshida went 1-3 w BB

POR won, but Wikelman is looking like burnt toast:
4.1, 7H, 7ER, 3BB and just 1K
Anthony and K Campbell both went 2-4 (Anthony HR'd)
Mayber 1-3 w BB

GRE won as Rogers got lit up.
Coffey went 3-5 w his dinger
Romero 2-4 w BB

SAL won as Dean pitched a gem: 5.0, 0H, 0ER, 1BB, 8K

[mvp 78]

Adjustments to his swing have catapulted Kristian Campbell on a fast-path -- like outfield teammate Roman Anthony, Campbell is now in Portland, but with a year of college ball under his belt.

Campbell is 22 and bats right-handed. Anthony is 20 and bats left-handed. The Red Sox are no rush to promote Anthony, their #1 prospect, until he masters his current level; at this point would it be surprising if Campbell progresses to Boston first?

Campbell, a college grad, is almost a full 2 years older than Roman. I'm not sure of any swing adjustments that he made this season. Something about his swing reminds me of Hunter Pence.

[mvp 78]

Yorke with a grand slam today!
Anthony with a tater today
Coffey, Garcia and Gonzalez with taters for Greenville. Greenville had an epic comeback today
Zanetello with a tater today

Interesting to see Yorke hit so well in AAA. SoxProspects stated that his underlying metrics in AA weren't very good so he was really in a rough stretch before getting the call up.

[mvp 78]

Fitts had a bad game:
5.1 IP, 4H 4ER 5BB 4K
Besides Yorke's granny, Yoshida went 1-3 w BB

POR won, but Wikelman is looking like burnt toast:
4.1, 7H, 7ER, 3BB and just 1K
Anthony and K Campbell both went 2-4 (Anthony HR'd)
Mayber 1-3 w BB

GRE won as Rogers got lit up.
Coffey went 3-5 w his dinger
Romero 2-4 w BB

SAL won as Dean pitched a gem: 5.0, 0H, 0ER, 1BB, 8K

12.43 ERA the past 3 starts for Wikelman. Injury?

[moonslav59]

Interesting to see Yorke hit so well in AAA. SoxProspects stated that his underlying metrics in AA weren't very good so he was really in a rough stretch before getting the call up.

It is nice to see, but rather a small sample size.

[moonslav59]

Campbell, a college grad, is almost a full 2 years older than Roman. I'm not sure of any swing adjustments that he made this season. Something about his swing reminds me of Hunter Pence.

We could sure use a big RHB in the bigs.