2025 Prospects

[moonslav59]

Just heard some podcast talking to some unknown who was raving about Jh Garcia and how he may end up better than all of our big 3 prospects.

[Larry Cook]

As we head into the second half of the minor league season, I think several prospects are having a really good year and overall, our minor league system is still fairly deep despite the graduations and pending graduations! I think bres-slow deserves props to his work in this regard!!?!

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

As we head into the second half of the minor league season, I think several prospects are having a really good year and overall, our minor league system is still fairly deep despite the graduations and pending graduations! I think bres-slow deserves props to his work in this regard!!?!

I'm very happy with the growth of many of our prospects. A is true with every season, some did not impress as much as hoped, bu there is still a half season left.

We will be graduating several of our best prospects, but I think our next class will be fine- maybe not as highly ranked, nationally, but very promising.

I'm super high on the Garcia brothers, as always, but Arias, Bleis and a bunch of pitchers have looked very good.

BTW, soxprospects.com slotted Tibbs 8th and J Bello 45th.

Arias jumped Perales into the #3 slot.

Tolle jumped to #5 and Romero dropped to #10.

[Larry Cook]

2 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Tolle jumped to #5 and Romero dropped to #10.

I am super impressed at the job the Red Sox have done with Tolle! I saw him at TCU and except for the sneaky delivery with his fastball, I was not that impressed! 
when I watched him this past weekend, I hardly recognized him. But still that sneaky fastball delivery remained! His stuff is so much sharper and tighter and he is throwing it for strikes.

 

[moonslav59]

12 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

I am super impressed at the job the Red Sox have done with Tolle! I saw him at TCU and except for the sneaky delivery with his fastball, I was not that impressed! 
when I watched him this past weekend, I hardly recognized him. But still that sneaky fastball delivery remained! His stuff is so much sharper and tighter and he is throwing it for strikes.

 

You seemed upset, when I ranked Tolle top 5.

[Larry Cook]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

You seemed upset, when I ranked Tolle top 5.

Maybe surprised. But putting eyes on a guy gives me a better picture!!!  

[Larry Cook]

Houck was lit up like a pinball machine tonight!! Ugly!!!

[mvp 78]

10 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Houck was lit up like a pinball machine tonight!! Ugly!!!

It's not surprising. He looked really bad last time out. Arm issue? 

[Larry Cook]

5 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

It's not surprising. He looked really bad last time out. Arm issue? 

Last year he could locate that big sweeping pitch on the corners of the plate for strikes! 
 

now that big sweeping pitch ends up over the heart of the plate and gets murdered 

[moonslav59]

Here are the soxprospects.com projected rotations by level for 2026:

MLB: Crochet, Sandoval, Bello, Dobbins, Crawford, Harrison (Houck/pen)

AAA: Perales, Early, Sandlin, Uberstine, Wehunt, Drohan (Murphy/pen)

AA: Tolle, Clarke, Paez, Valera, Rogers, Rivera (Ingrassia/pen)

A+: Aita, Holobetz, Tygart, Neely, Brooks, Ehrlicher (Vogatsky)

A-: Cason, Fajardo, Reyes, Travieso, Ruiz, J Bello

FCL: Delzine, Cordero, Zink, A Lopez, C Lee

 

[moonslav59]

Aita went 6.1 w GRE: 1 hit, 0 ER, 2BB, 8K (1.42 ERA, now.)

SAL won 5-2: Futrell went 4, 3H, 0ER, 1BB, 3 K and Cespedes went 2-4 w HR and is now over .700.

[mvp 78]

11 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Aita went 6.1 w GRE: 1 hit, 0 ER, 2BB, 8K (1.42 ERA, now.)

SAL won 5-2: Futrell went 4, 3H, 0ER, 1BB, 3 K and Cespedes went 2-4 w HR and is now over .700.

The callup to GRE didn't slow Aita down. I kinda lost track of him after the first few weeks of the season. 

1.8 bb/9

8.0 k/9

.591 OPS

A little BABIP luck for him lately, but I like that he's throwing strikes. 

[mvp 78]

Harrison's first WOO start. Clarke's first start in over a month. Yhoiker's second SAL start. Good day to watch some pitching. 

[moonslav59]

Harrison could be a nice boost to the team. We could use one, soon!

[moonslav59]

Top Sox OPS (200+ PAs)

.913 Anthony AAA (now in MLB)

.905 Jordan AA/AAA

.862 Nunez A-

.852 Jh Garcia AA/AAA

.838 Encarnacion A-/A+

.831 Ehrhard A+/AA

.818 Mayer AAA (now in MLB)

.810 Eaton AAA (now in MLB)

.795 Thompson AAA

.786 Anders

.783 Arias A-/A+

.772 Taylor A+

.770 Hickey AAA

100-199 PAs

.899 Fermin FCL

.883 Toro AAA (now in MLB)

.831 Kolozsvary AA/AAA

.826 Romero AA

.823 Rosier AA/AAA

40-99

1.221 R Noda AAA

1.086 Brito DSL

.995 Jo Rodriguez FCL

.939 Soto DSL

.884 Asencio DSL

.884 T Baker FCL

.875 de la Cruz DSL

.843 Alzi DSL

.801 H Ramos DSL

.795 Jo Garcia FCL/GRE

[mvp 78]

19 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Harrison could be a nice boost to the team. We could use one, soon!

I think after July 4th they get an extra year of service for holding him down. 🤨

[moonslav59]

Best OPS+ (40+ IP)

.431 Rivera A+

.534 Mullins A+/AA

.591 Aita A-/A+ (70 IP lead our farm)

.608 Sprague A-/A+

.613 Early AA

.625 Stock AAA

.632 Sandlin AA

.650 Cohen A-

.654 Uberstine AA/AAA

.663 Rogers A+/AA

.669 Tolle A+

.701 Wehunt AA

.712 Bates A- 

Selected Pitchers at 20-39 IP

.334 Clarke A-/A+

.479 Fajardo FCL/A-

.486 Burdi AAA (was in MLB before IL)

.505 Sena AA

.554 Y Cruz AA

.571 Drohan AAA

.574 Criswell AAA

.599 McShane A-/A+

.601 Stebens A+

.621 Kilander A-

.619 Wu-Yelland A+/AA

.635 Monegro AA

.647 Sansone A-/A+

 

[Larry Cook]

7 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Harrison's first WOO start. Clarke's first start in over a month. Yhoiker's second SAL start. Good day to watch some pitching. 

Rivera was amazing at Greenville!!  Really good stuff when he has command and control!! 

[Larry Cook]

Rivera was wild tonight 5 walks in 4 innings. Ugly!!!

ehrhard with his 5th tater for Portland. He would be a prospect if he could hit a breaking ball!!!!

[moonslav59]

GRE had a no hitter going, late, despite Clarke allowing a run on a couple BBs, a SB and WP. GRE won in 10, 2-1

Harrison did not look good: 4 IP, 8H, 4ER, 1BB, 4K. Campbell 1-2 w BB & HBP.

POR looked like the Sox with only 3 hits.

Cespedes had 2 hits in SAl's loss.

[Larry Cook]

15 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

GRE had a no hitter going, late, despite Clarke allowing a run on a couple BBs, a SB and WP. GRE won in 10, 2-1

Harrison did not look good: 4 IP, 8H, 4ER, 1BB, 4K. Campbell 1-2 w BB & HBP.

POR looked like the Sox with only 3 hits.

Cespedes had 2 hits in SAl's loss.

Harrison appears to be throwing a splitter or cutter that they are calling a slider!!! 
terrible looking pitch!!  I think Harrison needs more work in Worcester 

[moonslav59]

Jh Garcia hit his 9th bomb, tonight and is at .983. Maybe the big 3 was really the big 4.

Campbell went 1-2 w 2BBs in the 4-2 loss. Uberstine was not good.

POR is down 2-1, late. Song let up the runs.

GRE & SAL had rainouts or suspended games.

 

[Larry Cook]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Jh Garcia hit his 9th bomb, tonight and is at .983. Maybe the big 3 was really the big 4.

Campbell went 1-2 w 2BBs in the 4-2 loss. Uberstine was not good.

POR is down 2-1, late. Song let up the runs.

GRE & SAL had rainouts or suspended games.

 

Song and uberstine walking a bunch of hitters!!! Command and control not there tonight 

[moonslav59]

I'm wondering how close Sox brass thinks Jh Garcia is from the big dance.

He's looking very impressive, of late.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

8 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I'm wondering how close Sox brass thinks Jh Garcia is from the big dance.

He's looking very impressive, of late.

He couldn't be part of the Fab Four while Teel was the drummer. 

But The Password hit more home runs than any of them last year. Yes, it was in the minors, but so were all of them -- and he's doing it again this season. 

From some eyeballs, Garcia is also at least as good an outfielder as Anthony and Campbell. He is already on the 40-man roster, so when the Sox are officially out of it, there's no reason not to give him a cup of coffee (that's what also-rans do when they have good prospects tearing up the final level before The Show).

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

He couldn't be part of the Fab Four while Teel was the drummer. 

But The Password hit more home runs than any of them last year. Yes, it was in the minors, but so were all of them -- and he's doing it again this season. 

From some eyeballs, Garcia is also at least as good an outfielder as Anthony and Campbell. He is already on the 40-man roster, so when the Sox are officially out of it, there's no reason not to give him a cup of coffee (that's what also-rans do when they have good prospects tearing up the final level before The Show).

Agreed.

He's likely a better defender than Anthony, since he can play CF, well.

He's better than Campbell in the OF, as of now, anyway.

He's a RHB, so that helps, but now that Devers is gone, we need one of our many lefties to step it up, bigtime.

[Larry Cook]

16 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I'm wondering how close Sox brass thinks Jh Garcia is from the big dance.

He's looking very impressive, of late.

I do not think he is ready for Boston yet!! Maybe September 

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, Larry Cook said:

I do not think he is ready for Boston yet!! Maybe September 

You may be right, but what will he learn in 10 more weeks?

[moonslav59]

Tolle today:

5 IP

1 Hit

1 ER

2 BB

9 K

1.80 ERA, now.

Sandlin comes in the game as a RP:

4 IP

1 Hit

0 ER

2 BB

7 K

3.66 ERA.

Wow, 16 Ks in 9 IP. The game is in the 1oth, now.

[Larry Cook]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Tolle today:

5 IP

1 Hit

1 ER

2 BB

9 K

1.80 ERA, now.

Sandlin comes in the game as a RP:

4 IP

1 Hit

0 ER

2 BB

7 K

3.66 ERA.

Wow, 16 Ks in 9 IP. The game is in the 1oth, now.

Tolle had 19 swings and misses on 83 pitches. That is crazy amazing