2022 Prospects

[Larry Cook]

At Worcester, j Davis with his 5th tater of the season. Stewart with his 10th tater of the season!

 

Bello - five innings pitched, four hits, zero walks, zero runs and 5 strike outs thus far!

[Larry Cook]

Groome with 6 innings pitched. Three hits surrendered (including 1 meatball served up). Two walks, two runs and 10 strikeouts.

[Larry Cook]

Bello ended the night with 7 innings pitched, 5 hits given up, 1 walk, zero runs and 7 strikeouts. Tremendous outing!

[Larry Cook]

Kavadas with his 12th tater of the season, but no walks yet.

[Larry Cook]

Hickey with his 7th tater of the season in the bottom of the 9th to tie it up.

[moonslav59]

Woo with the shut out.

 

Taylor pitched a hitless, scoreless, walkless, K-less first inning.

 

Bello went the next 7, 5H, 0ER, 0BB 7K's

 

Ort pitched a scoreless 9th 1H, 0 BB 2K

 

Wong and JDavis had 3 hits- Wong w a 2B, Davis was a 2B short of a cycle. Granberg & Stewart with 2 hits, each, while Arroyo went 0-3

 

POR scored late to pull out a win 5-2. Groome let up 2 in 6 IP (3H, 2BB, 10K)

Cottam had 2 hits, Reed & Castellanos each had a 2B. Koss 0-4 w 4Ks.

 

Greenville was 2 hit (Binelas with 1.)

 

Salem lost 8-7, despite A Bastardo going 4 scoreless. Mayer, Bonaci, Jordan & Kavadas all with 2 hits. (Kavadas a 2B & HR, Mayer & Jordan w 2Bs) Hickey went 1-4 w HR and BB and had a rare 2K night.

 

[mvp 78]

Groome with 6 innings pitched. Three hits surrendered (including 1 meatball served up). Two walks, two runs and 10 strikeouts.

 

Better k/bb this time out.

[moonslav59]

These three guys are tearing up their leagues:

 

Kavadas

.283 12 45 in 184 ABs (.455 OBP and a nice SLG of .587, too.)

 

Rafaela

.324 13 48 in 250 ABs (.361 OBP & .616 SLG)

 

Hickey

.278 7 39 in 133 ABs (.437 OBP with 38 BBs and just 37 Ks/ .526 SLG)

 

Honorable mentions to:

Lugo .880 OPS

Mayer .848 OPS

Binelas .830

 

Northcut has 21 HRs, 8 2Bs and 21 singles (89 Ks in 219 ABs)

 

[moonslav59]

Among our IP leaders on the farm (40+), here are the leaders in OPS Against:

 

.516 Seabold (49K:14 BB)

.562 Winckowski (43:8)

.564 Bello (99:27)

.570 Murphy (83:23)

.585 Walter (75:7)

.652 Encarnacion (57:14)

.674 Santos (54:13)

.681 Drohan (81:25)

.692 Uberstine (58:18)

.697 Groome (62:29)

.722 Gonzalez (57:29)

[mvp 78]

Northcut has 21 HRs, 8 2Bs and 21 singles (89 Ks in 219 ABs)

 

 

Hard to get too excited about Northcut. He can send the fans home happy in the MiLB stadiums though.

[moonslav59]

Hard to get too excited about Northcut. He can send the fans home happy in the MiLB stadiums though.

 

That does seem to be his ceiling.

[mvp 78]

That does seem to be his ceiling.

 

What does a 37% k rate in A ball look like in AA? In AAA? In MLB?

[moonslav59]

An update on some of the Beni return package:

 

Winckowski has his ERA down to 3.68 after 3 starts in the bigs.

 

Cordero is clawing his was out of the Franchy Bashfest often found on this site (not undeserving.)

 

Luis De La Rosa (19 years old) of the FCL Sox went four scoreless innings (2.65 ERA in career 71 IP in FRk and Rookie Leagues (ages 16-19.)

 

Freddy Valdez torns 21 in December and has not shown much promise since the trade.

 

Grant Gambrell (age 24) has yet to pitch, this year and struggles at GRE, last season.

[moonslav59]

What does a 37% k rate in A ball look like in AA? In AAA? In MLB?

 

If he could hit 21 HRs every 219 ABs at any level, the K's would be overlooked, IMO, but I doubt he can or would.

[Larry Cook]

At Worcester, wong with his 4th tater of the season.

[moonslav59]

At Worcester, wong with his 4th tater of the season.

 

Good to see him doing well, again. He started slowly.

[Larry Cook]

At Salem, Kavadas with his 13th tater of the season. Sadly, he has yet to walk thus far tonight!

 

Also Miller with his 8th tater of the season, go war eagle!

[moonslav59]

At Salem, Kavadas with his 13th tater of the season. Sadly, he has yet to walk thus far tonight!

 

 

The original "Greek God of Walks" hit a few dingers, too.

[Larry Cook]

The original "Greek God of Walks" hit a few dingers, too.

 

Kavadas is not being challenged at Salem. But binelas and Northcut have first base covered at Greenville.

 

However first baseman reed is not producing at Portland.

 

Tough decisions ahead for hang’em Chaim and his minions,

[Larry Cook]

At Greenville, binelas with his 14th tater of the season!

 

Yorke with his 5th tater of the season.

[moonslav59]

Wow, Pannone went 5.2 without walking anybody! (7Ks, 4H, OER). The pen finished the shoutout. Wong with the homer already mentioned, and RHern had 3 hits (2B). Fitzy went 2-4 w a 2B, too. Granberg 2-4. He never gets XBHs.

 

POR was PPD

 

GRE was smoked 13-2. Mata 2 IP, 4H, 3 ER, 1BB, 2K. McDonough 2-4 and Yorke & Binelas 1-4 w 2Bs.

 

Salem won 5-4. Bonaci, Jordan and Kavadas all had 2 hits. Kavadas with a dinger. Mayer 1-3 w BB.

[mvp 78]

Armando Sierra is straight up mashing for DSL - Blue.

 

@SoxProspects

Armando Sierra went 3-for-5 with a double (8) and an RBI (17) in today's 7-6 DSL Red Sox Blue win. The 18-year-old first baseman is slashing .466/.530/.707 with two home runs over 66 PA.

 

The only note they have on him at SP is Outfielder Armando Sierra signed for $150,000 in January 2021 and though his numbers do not yet show it, his power potential is impressive. He is a below-average athlete and does not project to add much defensive value, but he has big-time raw power. He gets his whole body into his swing, but there are significant questions with his hit tool that could limit his power utility against more advanced pitching.

[moonslav59]

Armando Sierra is straight up mashing for DSL - Blue.

 

@SoxProspects

Armando Sierra went 3-for-5 with a double (8) and an RBI (17) in today's 7-6 DSL Red Sox Blue win. The 18-year-old first baseman is slashing .466/.530/.707 with two home runs over 66 PA.

 

The only note they have on him at SP is Outfielder Armando Sierra signed for $150,000 in January 2021 and though his numbers do not yet show it, his power potential is impressive. He is a below-average athlete and does not project to add much defensive value, but he has big-time raw power. He gets his whole body into his swing, but there are significant questions with his hit tool that could limit his power utility against more advanced pitching.

 

How much info and scouting do they actually have on some of these guys?

[Larry Cook]

In Worcester, Sanchez with his 8th tater of the season.

[Larry Cook]

In Portland Rafaela with his 5th Portland tater of the season and reed with his 4th tater of the season.

[Larry Cook]

In Salem blaze with his 7th tater of the season.

 

Kavadas with his 14th tater of the season, sadly he has not walked on the game this far.

[Larry Cook]

In Greenville, Davis with two taters tonight for 12 on the season.

[moonslav59]

In Salem blaze with his 7th tater of the season.

 

Kavadas with his 14th tater of the season, sadly he has not walked on the game this far.

 

If he keeps homering every night we may start seeing some IBBs.

[Larry Cook]

If he keeps homering every night we may start seeing some IBBs.

 

3 straight games with a tater and 3 straight games without a walk! I see a pattern here.

[moonslav59]

3 straight games with a tater and 3 straight games without a walk! I see a pattern here.

 

You act like it's a bad trend.

 

LOL.