2024 Prospects

[moonslav59]

The DSL Sox won the first game of the championship series, today, 3-1 in a rain shortened game.

[mvp 78]

https://www.milb.com/gameday/dsl-angels-vs-dsl-red-sox-red/2024/08/29/774757/final/box

DSL Red wins 3-1 in DSL Finals Game 1.

😎🌴⚾💪

[moonslav59]

Top Farm OPS (200+ PAs)

1.017 Gasper AA>AAA

1.014 Campbell A+>AA>AAA

.918 Jh Garcia A->A+.AA

.895 Arias FCL>A-

.886 Anthony AA>AAA

.876 Meidroth AAA

.852 Westbrook AAA

.850 Mayer AA>AAA (IL)

.835 Sogard AAA

.835 Romero FCL>>A+>AA

.827 B Gonzalez A+

.804 Dalbec AAA

.801 E Alvarez AAA

.801 Binelas AA

.793 Teel AA>AAA

Notables:

.769 Castro A+>AA

.699 Jordan AA

.557 Zanetello A-

Under 200 PAs

.913 Drew Ehhard A+>AA

.908 Ju. Gonzalez DSL

.904 F Jimenez FCL

.834 Asencio FCL

.811 Brito DSL

.800 Pinto DSL

.798 Bolivar DSL

[moonslav59]

The DSL Sox lost 2-0, today, in the championship series. It's their first playoff loss. Next game decides the champs.

[Larry Cook]

With Hamilton getting hurt, does Campbell get called up in a few days? 

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, Larry Cook said:

With Hamilton getting hurt, does Campbell get called up in a few days? 

No.

[Behindenemylines]

I think both Anthony and Campbell have jumped over Mayer for the top prospects.

1. Anthony (looks like the real deal)

2. Campbell ( on fire the whole summer of 2023)

3. Mayer (two years in a row season ended early)

4. Teel (struggled at the plate in AAA)

[moonslav59]

6 hours ago, Behindenemylines said:

I think both Anthony and Campbell have jumped over Mayer for the top prospects.

1. Anthony (looks like the real deal)

2. Campbell ( on fire the whole summer of 2023)

3. Mayer (two years in a row season ended early)

4. Teel (struggled at the plate in AAA)

Teel's sample size in AAA is growing, but it is still rather small (51 ABs.) It is concerning, no doubt, but let's see how he finishes.

I agree that Anthony and Campbell are now our clear 1-2 in the rankings, but that is more about their great play than Mayer's injury or struggles. Mayer has looked fine, when playing.

I'm really liking our next tier of rising prospects, more and more: Arias, Jh Garcia and despite the injuries: Cespedes & Jo Garcia. Even Bleis is starting to make some noise. I don't know enough about Montgomery to have a strong opinion, but the talk is, he's a keeper.

Meidroth might be the sleeper guy.

Our pitchers have not jumped the rankings, all that much, but we seem to have a growing quantity of promising pitchers to hope that some will, eventually. The problem is, the close to the bigs ones have not been too impressive (Priester, Fitts, Sandlin.) Dobbins has done the best, but not many view him as having a high ceiling.

 

[moonslav59]

Here is how and when we acquired our top prospects and young players on the roster:

1. Anthony (2nd round draft pick 2022: Bloom)

2. Mayer (1st round pick 2021: Bloom)

3. Kyle Teel (1st rd. pick 2023: Bloom)

4. K Campbell (4th rd comp pick: Bloom)

5. Montgomery (1st rd. '24: Brez)

6. Arias (IFA '23: Bloom)

7. Cespedes (IFA '23: Bloom)

8. Bleis (IFA '21: Bloom)

9. Meidroth (4th rd  '22: Bloom)

10. Perales (IFA '19 DD)

Sandlin & Fitts (Trades '24: Brez)

MLB Players (under control in 2025 or beyond, only)

Ben: Devers (IFA '13)

DD: Duran (draft '18,) Houck (draft '17,) Casas (draft '18,) Bello (IFA '17,) Rafaela (IFA '17,) Crawford (draft '17,)

Bloom: Wong (trade '20), Whitlock (Rule 5 '20,) Story (FA '22,) Yoshida (FA '23,) Refsnyder MiFA '22,) DHam, Abreu & Valdez (trades '22,) Wink (trade '21,) Kelly (MiFA '22) Bernardino (Waiver '23,) Sogard (trade '19,)

Brez: Giolito (FA '24,) Slaten (Trade for Rule 5 '24,) ICampbell, Weissert, Grissom, Horn, Priester (trades '24,) Romy (waivers '24)

 

[moonslav59]

The DSL Red Sox won the championship, today. They won 6-0, despite walking 7 batters. 4 pitchers combined for a 2 hitter. Justin Gonzalez went 4-5 w a 2B. Fermin went 3-5. Brito 1-1 w 2 BB.

Woo lost 6-0. Campbell went 1-3 w BB.

[Larry Cook]

I may be late to the party on this, but has anybody seen judice pitch for Salem? While his stuff is average at best, it is his size that is amazing! He is listed at 6’8” and 230 pounds. He is a huge guy. Got to be the biggest pitcher I have seen in a while!!! 

[moonslav59]

I did not know he was that huge. Maybe it helps him become a good pitcher.

I do like how Brez has attempted to improve our pitching pipeline, even if just with quantity and not so much quality. We have to start somewhere, and not many felt like Crawford, Wink and Pivetta would amount to much, when we acquired or drafted them.

Gio, Slaten, Criswell, Hendriks, Weissert, I Campbell, Paxton, Hill, Garcia, Sims, Horn & other MLB pitchers

Priester, Fitts, Sandlin, Judice, Tolle, Cason (SS, too),  B Neely, D Reyes, B Clarke, B Tygart, B Aita, D Futrell, S Rojas, J Medina, S Brooks, S Sprague, A Bouchard, J Gartrell, G Kilander, C Tolbert, B Hansen...

Pitchers we traded away: Sale (Grissom), Schreiber (Sandlin) , N Robertson & V Santos (O'Neill), Zeferjahn & Vargas (Garcia), O Portis (Sims), G Batista (Jansen), Bolivar (Paxton)

 

[moonslav59]

The farm is becoming closer to being more entertaining than the big club.

Westbrook hit a granny to lead Woo to a victory. He went 3-4. Story went 2-4 as the DH. Anthony & Campbell went 1-4, Meidroth 1-1 and Teel went 2-4 with a homer & BB. Grissom homered and walked once.

POR won 9-1 as Bolden pitched 4 no hit innings. Romero's stock keep rising, as he homered while going 3 for 6. Jh Garcia went 2-4 w a BB.

GRE won 6-1, as Monegro went 5 IP, allowing 2 hits, 2BBs and no ERs (5Ks.)

SAL completed the farm sweep with a 6-5 win. Ingrassa 2 IP 0H, 0ER, 2BB, 2K. Brannon went 3-4 w a dinger.

Nice day on the farm: horrible day in Detroit.

[Larry Cook]

Ingrassia is very intriguing. I have not seen enough of him yet to get a good read on his stuff! But it looks impressive 

[moonslav59]

I like your inputs, Larry. Keep 'em coming. I know you have a passion for our farm- probably more than I do.

MVP has a firm grasp of the skillsets of our prospects, along with their weak areas or need areas.

I think soxprospects does  a fine job not overhyping our prospects. Sometimes, I think they try to be too conservative, but that's not a bad thing, when you got fans like us looking at players' ceilings like they are reality.

Thanks for your contributions, Larry.

[Larry Cook]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

I like your inputs, Larry. Keep 'em coming. I know you have a passion for our farm- probably more than I do.

MVP has a firm grasp of the skillsets of our prospects, along with their weak areas or need areas.

I think soxprospects does  a fine job not overhyping our prospects. Sometimes, I think they try to be too conservative, but that's not a bad thing, when you got fans like us looking at players' ceilings like they are reality.

Thanks for your contributions, Larry.

Thank you! Appreciate it 

[moonslav59]

Fitts pitched well, today:  6 IP, 2H, 0ER, 0BB, 5 K (55 of 77 pitches were strikes.) Westbrook had another monster game, going 2-4 w a 2B & HR. Campbell went 1-3 w BB, Teel 2-3 w BB and  Anthony 1-4 w 2B.

Arias is 2-4 late in their game.

[moonslav59]

Salem scored 5 in the bottom of the 9th to win 8-7. Happy Labor Day!

[mvp 78]

6 top 100 prospects is pretty good. Too bad Perales is injured. I'm not sure Arias should be ranked that high, but maybe that's just me. 

[mvp 78]

NIce little roll for Fitts. 

[Hugh2]

I’m not sure Fitts is ever anything more than a BOTR starter.  That’s fine, but we got that already In Boston. 

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, Hugh2 said:

I’m not sure Fitts is ever anything more than a BOTR starter.  That’s fine, but we got that already In Boston. 

If he can actually throw innings and stay healthy, it’s very valuable.

[Larry Cook]

When fitts velocity is up, he does fine. When fitts velocity dips, he gets crushed 

[moonslav59]

Fitts turns 25 in December, and he will surely be added to the 40 to protect from Rule 5.

I kinda like our rotation depth of Criswell, Fitts, Priester and maybe even Dobbins, if he can take a step up.

To me, they key is not counting on Crawford as the 5, Bello as the 4, Gio as the 2 and Houck as the 1, with us adding just a #3 type SP'er. I hope we sign 2 SP'ers - maybe a 1 & 3 or 2 twos, so Crawford can be in the pen with Whitlock. Our pen needs help, too.

I never get my wishes.

[Hugh2]

Fitts is fine, like I said; I think he has a chance of hacing a decent career as an innings eater/ back of the rotation starter. You can never have enough pitching, and not all of them can be aces. 

Of course in Bostons case, also none of them can be aces. 

[moonslav59]

From soxprospects.com...

 Isaac Coffey continued his sensational run since the month of August began. In five starts since then, he has posted a 1.73 ERA in 26 innings. He has gone at least five innings in all five starts. Overall, he has a 3.33 ERA in 23 games with 138 strikeouts in 108 innings pitched. 

He has 9 Ks in 4 of those 5 starts.

[Hugh2]

If Coffey could add a few ticks of velocity he could be something, but at 24 that's hard to see.  Maybe he sees an increase in a bullpen role?

His biggest problem is he tosses soft and doesn't have a true out pitch, or anything plus.  Good control, and a nice arsenal, so it's not surprising he's carving up the low minors. 

[Hugh2]

ADD: 

 

I'm largely going by his scouting reports.  Yes, he's striking guys out, and THAT'S GOOD.  But is it because his above average command and control allows him to take advantage of minor league hitters.  That's what the scouting says on him 

"Type of player who may have success in the low minors due to combination of pitch mix, command-and-control profile, and unique look/arm slot, but will face a much tougher test in the high minors against more mature hitters."

Still, when a guy puts together a nice stretch like he has, one has to wonder if he's just doing what everyone thought he would or has something changed? pitchers do pop.  Not getting my hopes up with this guy, but I'd be interested to see if the scouting reports change on him this offseason. 

[moonslav59]

I don't consider AA the "low minors," but yes, at 24 many are in AAA.

Soxprospects says this...

Ceiling of an up-and-down, deception-based reliever. Throws strikes with a four-pitch mix and comes from a deceptive arm slot with an athletic delivery, but lack of velocity limits upside.

[moonslav59]

Priester pitched a gem. It's almost scary, if he does real well, JH will pencil him as our #5 SP'er and not sign anyome.

6IP, 4H, 0ER, 0BB, 8K

Anthony 2-3 2 BB,  Campbell 1-4 w BB, Teel 1-5, Story 0-4

POR lost 6-1, as Wikelman got lit up. Romero w a solo blast.

GRE lost 1-0 w Mullins going 5.2, 3H, 0ER, 1BB, 5K

SAL won 7-6 w Zanetello 2-4 w 3B & BB