2023 Prospects

[Old Red]

@tylermilliken_

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@BaseballAmerica

has moved Nick Yorke back into their Top 100 list at 96.

 

Nice to see his stock going back up after a strong start to his first stint at AA. .287/.400/.464/.868 with 6 HR, 7 2B, and 3 3B in 44 games.

 

Also… Marcelo Mayer is now up to 8.

 

Yorke 3-5 with a HR, and 5 RBI today.

[mvp 78]

Yorke 3-5 with a HR, and 5 RBI today.

 

Rafaela extended his hitting streak to 13 games. That POR lineup is goooood.

[Larry Cook]

Yorke 3-5 with a HR, and 5 RBI today.

 

Ever since his wrist got better last season, his sweet swing has returned!

[mvp 78]

Ever since his wrist got better last season, his sweet swing has returned!

 

His swing is completely different now though?

[Dipre]

Yorke looks like a Pedroia-type to me. The kind of guy who, in 0-2, has the pitcher right where he wants him. Great approach, great swing, and able to make adjustments.

[Larry Cook]

Why doesn’t Corey roiser get more at bats for Portland?

[mvp 78]

@SoxProspects

Catcher Stephen Scott and outfielder Tyler Dearden have been promoted to Triple-A Worcester. Scott is currently #35 on the #SP60. He's slashed .248/.369/.448 over 149 PA this season.

[mvp 78]

Why doesn’t Corey roiser get more at bats for Portland?

 

Punch and Judy hitter. The lineup is stacked. He's being benched in favor of Matthew Lugo and Phillip Sikes, two guys with potentially higher ceilings.

 

Now that Stephen Scott has been called up, it's one less everyday guy to make room for.

[Old Red]

Miguel Bleis to have shoulder surgery, and will miss the rest of the season. Edited June 10, 2023 by Old Red

[Larry Cook]

Van Belle pitched a whale of a game today for Portland!

[mvp 78]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/boston-red-sox-top-46-prospects-2023/

 

FanGraphs posted their top 46 for BOS.

 

1 Marcelo Mayer 20.5 AA SS 2025 55

2 Miguel Bleis 19.3 A CF 2026 55

3 Triston Casas 23.4 MLB 1B 2023 55

4 Ceddanne Rafaela 22.7 AA CF 2024 50

5 Nick Yorke 21.2 AA 2B 2025 50

6 Masataka Yoshida 29.9 MLB LF 2023 45+

7 Roman Anthony 19.1 A RF 2026 45+

8 Shane Drohan 24.4 AAA SP 2024 45

9 Marvin Alcantara 18.6 R SS 2027 45

10 Wikelman Gonzalez 21.2 A+ SP 2025 45

11 Angel Bastardo 21.0 A+ SP 2025 45

12 Mikey Romero 19.4 A 2B 2028 45

13 Enmanuel Valdez 24.5 MLB 2B 2023 45

14 Eddinson Paulino 20.9 A+ 3B 2024 40+

15 Chase Meidroth 21.9 AA 3B 2027 40+

16 Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz 19.8 A SP 2026 40+

17 Bradley Blalock 22.5 A SP 2025 40+

18 Wilyer Abreu 24.0 AAA RF 2023 40

19 Chris Murphy 25.0 MLB MIRP 2023 40

20 Brandon Walter 26.8 AAA MIRP 2023 40

21 David Hamilton 25.7 AAA SS 2023 40

22 Yoeilin Cespedes 17.8 R 2B 2029 40

23 Brainer Bonaci 20.9 A+ 2B 2024 40

24 Luis Perales 20.2 A SIRP 2025 40

25 Yordanny Monegro 20.7 R SP 2026 40

26 Ryan Fernandez 25.0 AA SIRP 2024 40

27 Bryan Mata 24.1 AAA MIRP 2023 40

28 Luis Guerrero 22.9 AA SIRP 2025 40

29 Blaze Jordan 20.5 A+ 1B 2025 40

30 Juan Daniel Encarnacion 22.2 A+ SIRP 2024 40

31 Chih-Jung Liu 24.2 AA SIRP 2024 40

32 Ronaldo Hernández 25.6 AAA C 2023 40

33 Cutter Coffey 19.1 A SS 2028 35+

34 Stephen Scott 26.1 AAA C 2024 35+

35 Jedixson Paez 19.4 A SP 2026 35+

36 Luis Cohen 20.0 R SP 2027 35+

37 Enderso Lira 19.7 A C 2026 35+

38 Corey Rosier 23.8 AA LF 2025 35+

39 Allan Castro 20.1 A CF 2025 35+

40 Noah Dean 22.3 A SIRP 2026 35+

41 Christopher Troye 24.3 AA SIRP 2024 35+

42 Alex Hoppe 24.5 A+ SIRP 2026 35+

43 Joey Stock 25.8 A+ SIRP 2025 35+

44 Dalton Rogers 21.4 A+ MIRP 2026 35+

45 Tyler McDonough 24.2 AA CF 2025 35+

46 Jhostynxon Garcia 20.5 A CF 2027 35+

[mvp 78]

Interesting notes on the FanGraphs list:

Alcantara 9 - (21 SP) is seen as the next Bleis type who could rocket up the charts nationally

Bastardo 11 - (36 SP) same age as Wikelman and is outpitching him, FanGraphs likes his 3 above average secondary pitches (SL, CU, CH)

Blalock 17 - (43 SP) coming off TJS, this is his Rule 5 year

Cespedes 22 - (41 SP) 1.4M Sox signee this year

Perales 24 - (8 SP) Rule 5 eligible, may be picked due to relief upside

Monegro 25 - (UR SP) "best pitching prospect I saw during extended ST" 5 IP, 8 K, 0 BB, 0 H in 1st FCL start this year

Mata 27 - (9 SP) "needs to be put in the pen"

Blaze 29 - (16 SP) projected as a big leaguer, but a 1B who doesn't walk or field well

[mvp 78]

Brooks Brannon hit his 2nd HR today in FCL.

 

1390 OPS in 5 Games. Probably has the bat for Low A, but I think they see him as the full package at Catcher and want to take their time developing the High School draftee.

[moonslav59]

Sox on the farm...

 

Woo

1.022 Dalbec (14 HRs, 22 XBHs & .417 OBP)

.935 Fitzy (26 XBHs)

.861 Valdez (.508 SLG)

.858 Abreu (.379 OBP)

.853 Hamilton (11 Hrs & 26 SBs)

 

POR

.910 Meidroth (16BB/ 16K)

.901 Yorke (20 XBHs)

.838 Hickey (.500 SLG)

.818 Kavadas (9 HRs and .396 OBP)

.817 Scott (.369 OBP)

.801 Rosier (.363 OBP & 24 SBs)

others

.745 Rafaela (27 SBs)

.561 Mayer (39 PAs)

.834 Jordan

 

GRE

.991 Hickey (11 XBHs in 20 hits)

.954 Meidroth (21 BB/ 20 Ks & .495 OBP)

.890 Mayer (.524 SLG)

.834 Jordan (23 XBHs

others

.704 Ferguson (.359 OBP & 23 SBs)

 

Pitching- A+, AA, AAA Only (30+ IP) OPS Against

.506 Rogers A/A+ (1HR in 35 IP)

.525 Dobbins A+ (36K: 4BB in 35 IP)

.571 Nail AA/AAA (1.45 ERA)

.621 Drohan AA/AAA (.191 BA Against)

.639 I Coffey A+ (75K: 10 BB in 55 IP)

.654 Bastardo A+ (71K in 54 IP)

.673 Wikelman A+ (70Ks in 42 IP)

 

A Ball

.513 J Ramirez (0 HR in 44 IP)

.590 de la Rosa (1 HR in 30 IP)

.663 E R-C (2.29 ERA)

 

[mvp 78]

Roman Anthony promoted to GRE.

[mvp 78]

Roman Anthony promoted to GRE.

 

@redsoxstats

Today's promotion of Roman Anthony to High-A Greenville makes him the youngest player in the South Atlantic League.

 

19.9 Ryan Clifford

19.9 T.J. White

19.5 Jackson Holliday

19.1 Roman Anthony

[moonslav59]

@redsoxstats

Today's promotion of Roman Anthony to High-A Greenville makes him the youngest player in the South Atlantic League.

 

19.9 Ryan Clifford

19.9 T.J. White

19.5 Jackson Holliday

19.1 Roman Anthony

 

Let's hope he passes this test.

[moonslav59]

POR won 9-1. Some nice box score lines:

 

3-4 Hickey w 5th HR

1-3 Kavadas w 10th HR and BB

1-4 Meidroth w 4th HR

1-4 Rafaela 2 2B & BB

1-4 Mayer (.550 OPS in short time in AA)

Sharp 6 IP, 6H, 1 ER, 2BB, 6K

 

Woo lost 3-0

Not much to report.

 

GRE lost bigly.

Encarnacion did well: 5 IP, 3H, 0 ER, 3BB, 5K

3-3 Jordan w 2B & BB

1-4 Anthony w 2B

 

SAL lost bigly as Dean got rocked

 

DSL

5-6 Cespedes

3-4 Paniagua w 2BB

3-5 Nunez

2-4 Semerite w BB

2-4 Prado w BB

2-4 Linarez

2-5 F Jimenez

2-6 Y Ruiz

 

FCL

2-2 Jones w 2BB

2-3 Salazar w 2B

2-4 Yuten w 2B & BB

2-4 Pierre

[moonslav59]

WOO won big, tonight.

Murphy pitched 3 innings in relief (4H, 0ER, 0BB, 5Ks)

Dalbec is making a case for another look (or a trade):

4-6, 2 HRs and a 3B (only 1 K) He has 16 HRs and a 1.072 OPS in AAA

Fitzy hit 2 HRs after coming in for EValdez.

RHern has is OPS up to .823 by going 2-4 w his 8th homer.

Hamilton went 2-4 w 2BB

 

POR was rained out.

 

GRE had some excitement in their win:

Rogers went 6 no hit innings with just 1 BB and 11Ks!

The team let up 2 hits.

Anthony 1-4 w HR

Jordan 2-3 w BB

Paulino 2-4

 

SAL split two:

ERC won (6-1) 5 IP. 2H, 1ER, 2BB, 5K (2.23 ERA)

Coffey 2-4 w HR

James 3-3 w two 2Bs

My dark horse prospect, Luis de la Rosa lost (4IP, 5H, 3ER, 1BB, 3K) 3.93 ERA

Simon went 2-4. Never heard of him.

[mvp 78]

Drohan continued his run of good starts in WOO.

 

6IP

6H

1BB

7K

3ER

 

Nice to see the BB number go down.

[mvp 78]

2 of the ER were on a 319' HR, which is among the 10 shortest HR's in professional baseball this season.

[Bellhorn04]

Drohan continued his run of good starts in WOO.

 

6IP

6H

1BB

7K

3ER

 

Nice to see the BB number go down.

 

Encouraging.

[mvp 78]

Encouraging.

 

Last 4 starts:

22.2 IP

3.18 ERA

1.37 WHIP

17 H

14 BB

20 K

 

The BB's are something to monitor, but today was a good day for him.

[mvp 78]

DSL Blue won 10-0 today.

 

Cespedes has a 1155 OPS and may be sent to the FCL at some point.

 

Much more importantly though, the pitchers today for DSL Blue were:

Nicolas De La Cruz 4 IP 0 ER 5 K, 0 BB, 2 H

Darlyn De La Cruz 4 IP 0 ER 6 K, 2 BB, 2 H

Ruben De La Cruz 1 IP 0 ER 2K, 0 BB, 0 H

[moonslav59]

Woo was 2 hit with Scott hitting a 2 run HR in the loss.

 

Por lost game 1, but Rafaela went 2-4.

Mayer doubled while going 1-4

Meidroth 0-1 w 2BB

Hickey 1-3

Kavadas 0-3 w 3Ks

 

POR lost game 3-2 in game 2.

Kavadas and Mayer both homers for 2 of the team's 3 hits. (Kavadas K'd twice/ Yorke 3 times.)

 

Joirdan homered and doubled in GRE's loss. Anthony had 2 hits.

 

FCL lost 12-11 (They scored 10 in the 8th and 1 in the 9th.)

The team walked 9 times.

Brannon 2-5 w BB & 3B

Yuten 2-6 w 2B

Alcantara 1-4 w 2BB

Avila 1-1 w 2BB

 

DSL Red lost 6-2

Arias 3-5 (1.023 OPS)

 

The 10-0 DSL Blue was already mentioned

 

 

Edited June 16, 2023 by moonslav59

[mvp 78]

Brannon is down in the FCL hitting tanks.

 

https://twitter.com/ggeiss24/status/1669763374383611904

[Dipre]

Brannon is down in the FCL hitting tanks.

 

https://twitter.com/ggeiss24/status/1669763374383611904

 

You like King of Juco?

[mvp 78]

You like King of Juco?

 

Juco? Brooks Brannon was signed out of HS.

[moonslav59]

Brannon homered, today (1-4.)

Alcantara went 3-5

Joh Garcia 3-4 w 3B

[moonslav59]

Minor League Baseball OPS Leaders:

 

AAA

3. Dalbec 1.058

17. Fitzy .929

27. Alfaro .886 (gone)

40. Hamilton .845 (5th in SBs with 26)

 

All Minors combined (900 players with 160+ PAs)

13. Dalbec (14th in HRs) 7th in ISO at .343

79. Meidroth .934 (11th in OBP at .464)

83. Fitzy .930 (45th in SLG at .565)

84. Hickey .929

114. Jordan .899

185. Abreu .858

202. Yorke .850

203. Kavadas .848

212. Hamilton .845

184. Mayer .811

 

SB Leaders

11. Rafaela 29 (7 CS)

20. Liendo 27 (5)

23. Hamilton 26 (6)

24. Rosier 26 (4)

28. Sikes 25 (3)

35. Ferguson 23 (4)

 

Edited June 17, 2023 by moonslav59