2025 Prospects

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

5 hours ago, Hugh2 said:

Baseball America also just recenlty updated their top 100. 

 

1. Roman Anthony

8. Marcelo Mayer

49. Payton Tolle

57. Franklin Arias

74. Brandon Clarke

88. Jhostynxon Garcia.

6 guys in the top 100 after recently graduating Campbell ain't too shabby.  You'd have to believe Valera is close as well and Perales could be in there if he was healthy

And in case you were wondering. 

35. Kyle Teel

53. Braden Montgomery

 

I value Baseball America's list over MLB's, since the former's focus is predominately amateurs and minors.

MLB literally has Major League represented in its anagram.

Hey, MLB, where's Payton's Place? BA has Tolle better than half of your prospects!

[Larry Cook]

15 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

I value Baseball America's list over MLB's, since the former's focus is predominately amateurs and minors.

MLB literally has Major League represented in its anagram.

Hey, MLB, where's Payton's Place? BA has Tolle better than half of your prospects!

The Major League Baseball top 100 is very skewed toward certain organizations and certain non success driven criteria ( like power over contact) . I rarely trust it. 

[moonslav59]

10 hours ago, Hugh2 said:

Baseball America also just recenlty updated their top 100. 

 

1. Roman Anthony

8. Marcelo Mayer

49. Payton Tolle

57. Franklin Arias

74. Brandon Clarke

88. Jhostynxon Garcia.

6 guys in the top 100 after recently graduating Campbell ain't too shabby.  You'd have to believe Valera is close as well and Perales could be in there if he was healthy

And in case you were wondering. 

35. Kyle Teel

53. Braden Montgomery

Impressive! 4 in the top 60. (6, if we still had Teel & Monty!)

[moonslav59]

Uberstine is coming back down to earth.

Campbell seems to be finding his groove, again. He's getting on base more often than not, lately. (2-3 tonight going into the 8th)

[Larry Cook]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Uberstine is coming back down to earth.

Campbell seems to be finding his groove, again. He's getting on base more often than not, lately. (2-3 tonight going into the 8th)

I wonder if the Sox are making him throw mostly breaking balls in order to sharpen them up 

regardless, early is ready to be promoted 

[moonslav59]

Brannon hit his first dinger w POR, and Romero & Ehrhard both had 3 hits. Tibbs & Castor had 2 each.

Bleis homered (2-4) and Jo Garcia went 2-4 for GRE. Clarke went 2.2 (1H, 0ER, 1BB, 4K)

Fajardo got lit up w SAL.

[Larry Cook]

40 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Brannon hit his first dinger w POR, and Romero & Ehrhard both had 3 hits. Tibbs & Castor had 2 each.

Bleis homered (2-4) and Jo Garcia went 2-4 for GRE. Clarke went 2.2 (1H, 0ER, 1BB, 4K)

Fajardo got lit up w SAL.

Romero has been on fire since returning healthy!!!

 

[moonslav59]

26 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

Romero has been on fire since returning healthy!!!

He got up to 7th before the injuries and dropping out of the top 20. He was up to 6th, earlier this year.

[Larry Cook]

51 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

He got up to 7th before the injuries and dropping out of the top 20. He was up to 6th, earlier this year.

Before the injury, he would foul off a lot of juicy pitchers and now they dropping for him, his babip must be rising post injury!!!?

[moonslav59]

8 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

Before the injury, he would foul off a lot of juicy pitchers and now they dropping for him, his babip must be rising post injury!!!?

With all the talk on Campbell, maybe Romero solves our 2B issue:

3B Mayer

SS Story

2B Romero

[Larry Cook]

13 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

With all the talk on Campbell, maybe Romero solves our 2B issue:

3B Mayer

SS Story

2B Romero

Romero jumps Grissom????

[Larry Cook]

Romero with his 8th tater of the year!!

houck 5 scoreless innings and Tolle went 4 innings just serving up 1 meatball 

[Larry Cook]

Dobbins, 5 innings, 1 run and 8 strike outs. Looked really good. 
Sandlin served up 3 meatballs and took the loss 

Zantenello with 3 hits and Anderson and yophary with 2 hits in big Greenville win 

Gonzales with 2 hits in Salem win. 

[Larry Cook]

Tibbs with a tater today 

[Larry Cook]

Grissom with a tater today!!! Jordan with 2 guys for Worcester today!  Criswell mauled badly! 
 

tibbs with a tater for Portland. Castro with 2 more hits. Early got mauled today 

Arias with 3 hits today. Yophary with 2 hits and encarnacion with a tater!!!

Gonzales with 2 hits today. Azocar with a tater today 

[Hugh2]

On 7/3/2025 at 2:23 PM, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

I value Baseball America's list over MLB's, since the former's focus is predominately amateurs and minors.

MLB literally has Major League represented in its anagram.

Hey, MLB, where's Payton's Place? BA has Tolle better than half of your prospects!

You know what? I do too.  To me, I think BA is clearly a step above MLB.com but I don't think MLB is garbage either. 

[Hugh2]

On the last soxprospects podcast they eluded to Tolle rising to #3 in the system.  Mayer and Anthony will not graduate for another month, so this means that when they do Tolle should be the #1 prospect in our system. 

If nothing else changes we will have 6 of our top 10 prospects be starting pitchers. 

Breslow certainly can't take all the credit but he's definitely helped continue and add momentum to the Sox initiative to improve the development of pitchers in the organization. 

[mvp 78]

On 7/4/2025 at 2:01 PM, Larry Cook said:

Romero jumps Grissom????

Grissom probably isn't in the system after this year. 

[Soxlover]

I think we are going to end up being pleasantly surprised by more than just Tolle from our farm pitching in coming years.

times have changed!

[Larry Cook]

48 minutes ago, Soxlover said:

I think we are going to end up being pleasantly surprised by more than just Tolle from our farm pitching in coming years.

times have changed!

We have a couple guys with amazing stuff, if they master command and control, they will be quality major league starters 

[Soxlover]

1 hour ago, Larry Cook said:

We have a couple guys with amazing stuff, if they master command and control, they will be quality major league starters 

At the risk of repeating myself, we have so many pitchers that fit this statement. I think the odds are very good at least 2 will do well in the big. I’m guessing 3+.

[mvp 78]

12 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

We have a couple guys with amazing stuff, if they master command and control, they will be quality major league starters 

If it only were so easy...

[Soxlover]

It’s not easy, but a few do it. There is a very long list of great pitchers who struggled with these issues early in their careers. 
 

we have a pretty long list of these guys in the minors and just need a couple to improve.

[mvp 78]

Kyle Harrison and Eduardo Rivera pitching tonight.

Since Rivera is newer to the system:

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2025/07/how-red-sox-beat-other-clubs-to-6-foot-7-lefty-prospect-who-hits-97-mph.html

[Larry Cook]

19 hours ago, Soxlover said:

At the risk of repeating myself, we have so many pitchers that fit this statement. I think the odds are very good at least 2 will do well in the big. I’m guessing 3+.

As starters??  1 maybe  
as relievers ???  2 or 3 maybe 

[Soxlover]

2 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

As starters??  1 maybe  
as relievers ???  2 or 3 maybe 

Yes, 2-3 as starters for sure. I’m taking AAA to DSL, so 4-6 years total.

[Larry Cook]

At Worcester: Harrison 5 innings, 4 earned runs. Two of the homers on meatballs (one off the slurve and one off the slider) 

Grissom 4 hits Garcia 2 hits Jordan with a hit. 
 

at Portland. Rivera with 6 innings and no earned runs. But 3 more walks. He is winkleman part 2!!!!

Romero, erhard and tibbs with a hit each. 
 

At Greenville: blies with a tater. Yophary, arias and encarnacion with a hit each 

at Salem. Gonzalez and mussett each with 1 hit !!!

 

 

[Soxlover]

3 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

At Worcester: Harrison 5 innings, 4 earned runs. Two of the homers on meatballs (one off the slurve and one off the slider) 

Grissom 4 hits Garcia 2 hits Jordan with a hit. 
 

at Portland. Rivera with 6 innings and no earned runs. But 3 more walks. He is winkleman part 2!!!!

Romero, erhard and tibbs with a hit each. 
 

At Greenville: blies with a tater. Yophary, arias and encarnacion with a hit each 

at Salem. Gonzalez and mussett each with 1 hit !!!

 

 

Maybe Grissom has some trade value. When you see Eaton get the call over him, you know he can’t be worth much, although Nate plays 3B.

[Larry Cook]

13 hours ago, Soxlover said:

Maybe Grissom has some trade value. When you see Eaton get the call over him, you know he can’t be worth much, although Nate plays 3B.

Nate plays better defense too! 

[mvp 78]

41 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

Nate plays better defense too! 

Grissom would have fit in well with some of my 10U softball players at last night's practice. 🙃