2022 Prospects

[Larry Cook]

Almonte with a tater for Worcester.

[moonslav59]

I'm wondering about German or even Murphy. Service time questions?

 

Murphy had a rough time, tonight:

 

6.2 IP

5 H

4 ER

5 BB

5 K

 

ERA is now 4.17.

Jeurys Familia pitched a scoreless/hitless 9th with 3K and 0 BB.

 

Rafaela is at .869 in POR.

 

[Larry Cook]

Greenville got no hit today, but Kavadas got another walk!

[moonslav59]

A guy named Franchy Cordero is having a big night with Woo (3 for 3). Maybe we should call him up! Can he play 1B? How hard can it be?

 

Enmanuel Valdez is continuing his tearing up of AAA, after hitting 1.112 in AA (205 PAs). He was hitting .907, here in Sugar Land in 173 PAs. Tonight, he has 2 taters, already, and is 3 for 4.

 

Almonte has a tater, too. (A guy Bloom traded cash for, recently.)

 

Maybe, the best news of the night is Mata going 6 IP for POR, allowing just 5 hits and no walks. 0 ER and 6 Ks.

[Larry Cook]

Your stealing my thunder, brother!

 

Cassas with two more walks thus far.

[Larry Cook]

At Salem, Belen with his 3rd tater.

[moonslav59]

Valdez is now 4 for 4, with 2 HRs and 6 RBI.

 

Vaz, who???

 

[moonslav59]

Here are some interesting numbers:

 

BB- K's

83-107 Kavadas (.468 OBP)

52-56 Hickey (.422)

 

Northcut (.281 OBP/ .513 SLG)

28 HRs

42 XBHs

32 singles

 

[Larry Cook]

Cassas with his 9th tater of the season.

[moonslav59]

Kavadas got his walk, but made the last out.

[moonslav59]

Enmauel Valdez 1.017 OPS in 2022

1.043 AAA WOR (29 AB)

.907 AAA Sugar Land (159 AB)

1.112 AA (168 ABs)

25 HRs and 89 RBI in just 458 ABs

 

Wilyer Abreu .842 in '22

.858 AA CC (329 ABs)

.648 AA POR (27 ABs)

15 HRs and 56 RBI in 356 ABs

 

Abraham Almonte .942 in '22

.1.037 AAA WOR (56)

.913 AAA NAS (184)

 

Pham

.784 BOS (44)

.694 CIN (340)

 

Hosmer

.686 BOS (19)

.727 SDP (335)

 

McGuire

.967 BOS (15)

.546 SDP (151)

Edited August 13, 2022 by moonslav59

[Old Red]

Valdez is now 4 for 4, with 2 HRs and 6 RBI.

 

Vaz, who???

 

 

I didn’t know Valdez was in the Red Sox lineup last night.

[notin]

I didn’t know Valdez was in the Red Sox lineup last night.

 

He might be soon. Yolmer Sanchez has glove, but no O game. Valdez has a 1.043 OPS since joining the WooSox…

[moonslav59]

He might be soon. Yolmer Sanchez has glove, but no O game. Valdez has a 1.043 OPS since joining the WooSox…

 

Eventually, some players doing well in the minors actually do well in the bigs.

 

I'm not sure why some seem to be against adding good prospects.

 

While increasing potential value might amount to nothing, isn't that the way farms are supposed to be improved?

 

Is there some other way to do it I'm not aware of?

 

Sure, talk the talk of developing pitchers in better ways, identify draftees in better ways, and other areas, and all we can hope for is that we are trying to and actually improving in those areas, but adding promising prospects should be viewed as a good thing.

 

BTW, we've had some recent successes with pitching prospects: Houck, Whitlock, Wickowski, Crawford and some flashes of promise from Bello.

[notin]

Eventually, some players doing well in the minors actually do well in the bigs.

 

I'm not sure why some seem to be against adding good prospects.

 

While increasing potential value might amount to nothing, isn't that the way farms are supposed to be improved?

 

Is there some other way to do it I'm not aware of?

 

Sure, talk the talk of developing pitchers in better ways, identify draftees in better ways, and other areas, and all we can hope for is that we are trying to and actually improving in those areas, but adding promising prospects should be viewed as a good thing.

 

BTW, we've had some recent successes with pitching prospects: Houck, Whitlock, Wickowski, Crawford and some flashes of promise from Bello.

 

If Valdez can fill in for Story this year, it will make the Vazquez trade look better…

[moonslav59]

If Valdez can fill in for Story this year, it will make the Vazquez trade look better…

 

Or, he could be a 2B option, next year and beyond, as Story moves to SS.

 

Or, he just becomes a utility/DH type player.

 

Or, he never makes a dent in the bigs.

 

The more choices you have, the better odds one or more come through.

 

I would like to start seeing more quality over quantity, but the quantity method has merit, too, especially when you started out with a bottom 5 farm.

[moonslav59]

Top Farm OPS (over 300 ABs)

1.088 Kavadas

1.017 E Valdez (HOU & BOS)

.917 Rafaela

.842 W Abreu (HOU & BOS)

.821 Jordan

.792 Granberg

.789 Lugo

.782 Bonaci

.770 Paulini & Koss

 

200-299 ABs

.892 Sikes

.874 Casas

.862 Mayer

.795 Joe Davis

.790 Sanchez

 

 

Best OPS Against (47+ IP) With some IP above Salem

 

.561 Bello

.562 Seabold

.582 Joey Stock

.585 Walter

.599 Mata

.610 Murphy

.635 Keller

.658 Uberstine

 

Notables:

.484 Ward in 26.2 IP

.499 German in 38.2 IP in relief

.522 Luis de la Rosa (FCL & Salem)

.668 Gonzalez

 

[notin]

Or, he could be a 2B option, next year and beyond, as Story moves to SS.

 

Or, he just becomes a utility/DH type player.

 

Or, he never makes a dent in the bigs.

 

The more choices you have, the better odds one or more come through.

 

I would like to start seeing more quality over quantity, but the quantity method has merit, too, especially when you started out with a bottom 5 farm.

 

Reportedly he’s not much on defense, but he is a hitter.

 

I think he settles into an MLB bench role.

 

The one thing I really like about him if he’s a huge Red Sox fan…

[Larry Cook]

At Worcester wong with his 7th tater of the season and hernandez with his 11th tater of the season!

[Larry Cook]

At Portland Hamilton with his 9th tater of the season.

[Larry Cook]

At Salem Paulino with his 9th tater of the season!

[Larry Cook]

Winkleman with his best game of the year. Six innings pitched. Zero runs, zero hits, one walk and five strike outs.

[Old Red]

He might be soon. Yolmer Sanchez has glove, but no O game. Valdez has a 1.043 OPS since joining the WooSox…

 

Meaningless until he does it in Boston.

[moonslav59]

Winkleman with his best game of the year. Six innings pitched. Zero runs, zero hits, one walk and five strike outs.

 

Bout time. I had high hopes for him going into this season.

[Larry Cook]

At Greenville, Mayer with his first Greenville tater of the season.

[Larry Cook]

At Salem, Meredith with his first tater of the season!

[Larry Cook]

Bout time. I had high hopes for him going into this season.

 

Young pitchers struggle with command and control. I expect more good and bad days from winkleman in the future.

[moonslav59]

Valdez with 2 hits (one a 2B) and a BB, today.

 

Could he be our next 2Bman or DH?

[moonslav59]

soxprospects has Wilyer Abreu as being Rule 5 eligible, this winter, but the do not have Enmanuel Valdez listed as eligible on any of their next 5 year lists.

 

Anyone know, when he is eligible?

 

He looks like a sure protectee, if it's this winter. (Not sure Abreu is.)

 

I'm really liking the talent that is likely to be added to our 40 man roster, this winter. We may have someone taken from us, if we fail to protect some of our borderline Rule 5 protectees.

Wilyer Abreu

Dan Altavilla

Angel Bastardo

Adenys Bautista

Brock Bell

Royman Blanco

Brainer Bonaci

Zach Bryant

Cameron Cannon

Triston Casas

Brendan Cellucci

Felix Cepeda

Kole Cottam

Wil Dalton

Joe Davis

Osvaldo De La Rosa

Luis De La Rosa

Tyler Dearden

Nick Decker

Jonathan Diaz

Alex Erro

Tyler Esplin

Albert Feliz

Durbin Feltman

Ryan Fernandez

Ryan Fitzgerald

Feleipe Franks

Grant Gambrell

Frank German

Rio Gomez

Wikelman Gonzalez

Bryan Gonzalez

Devlin Granberg

Jaxx Groshans

David Hamilton

Gabriel Jackson

Axel James

Gilberto Jimenez

Christian Koss

Austin Lambright

Dominic LoBrutto

Eduardo Lopez

Bryan Lucas

Naysbel Marcano

Elih Marrero

Chris Murphy

Brendan Nail

Nick Northcut

Andres Ortuno

Yusniel Padron-Artiles

Eddinson Paulino

Aaron Perry

AJ Politi

Ceddanne Rafaela

Jose Ramirez

Oscar Rangel

Tyreque Reed

Carlos Reyes

Jorge Rodriguez

Giancarlos Santana

Victor Santos

Stephen Scott

Cody Scroggins

Chase Shugart

Nick Sogard

Noah Song

Dylan Spacke

Miguel Suero

Luis Talavera

Jake Thompson

Freddy Valdez

Michael Valera

Eduardo Vaughan

Jacob Wallace

Brandon Walter

Thaddeus Ward

Alex Zapete

Ryan Zeferjahn

 

??? Enmanuel Valdez???

Edited August 14, 2022 by moonslav59

[Larry Cook]

soxprospects has Wilyer Abreu as being Rule 5 eligible, this winter, but the do not have Enmanuel Valdez listed as eligible on any of their next 5 year lists.

 

Anyone know, when he is eligible?

 

He looks like a sure protectee, if it's this winter. (Not sure Abreu is.)

 

I'm really liking the talent that is likely to be added to our 40 man roster, this winter. We may have someone taken from us, if we fail to protect some of our borderline Rule 5 protectees.

Wilyer Abreu

Dan Altavilla

Angel Bastardo

Adenys Bautista

Brock Bell

Royman Blanco

Brainer Bonaci

Zach Bryant

Cameron Cannon

Triston Casas

Brendan Cellucci

Felix Cepeda

Kole Cottam

Wil Dalton

Joe Davis

Osvaldo De La Rosa

Luis De La Rosa

Tyler Dearden

Nick Decker

Jonathan Diaz

Alex Erro

Tyler Esplin

Albert Feliz

Durbin Feltman

Ryan Fernandez

Ryan Fitzgerald

Feleipe Franks

Grant Gambrell

Frank German

Rio Gomez

Wikelman Gonzalez

Bryan Gonzalez

Devlin Granberg

Jaxx Groshans

David Hamilton

Gabriel Jackson

Axel James

Gilberto Jimenez

Christian Koss

Austin Lambright

Dominic LoBrutto

Eduardo Lopez

Bryan Lucas

Naysbel Marcano

Elih Marrero

Chris Murphy

Brendan Nail

Nick Northcut

Andres Ortuno

Yusniel Padron-Artiles

Eddinson Paulino

Aaron Perry

AJ Politi

Ceddanne Rafaela

Jose Ramirez

Oscar Rangel

Tyreque Reed

Carlos Reyes

Jorge Rodriguez

Giancarlos Santana

Victor Santos

Stephen Scott

Cody Scroggins

Chase Shugart

Nick Sogard

Noah Song

Dylan Spacke

Miguel Suero

Luis Talavera

Jake Thompson

Freddy Valdez

Michael Valera

Eduardo Vaughan

Jacob Wallace

Brandon Walter

Thaddeus Ward

Alex Zapete

Ryan Zeferjahn

 

??? Enmanuel Valdez???

 

Maybe we jettison r hernandez and open up another spot.