2025 Prospects

[moonslav59]

10 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

Garcia with 3 hits including a tater and Campbell with 2 hits including a tater 

Ferguson with a grand tater for Portland 

Yophary 3 for 8 with a tater for Greenville 

Gonzales 1 for 4 with a walk for Salem. 

Grissom stays hot (2-4.)

My man, Jo Garcia homered for GRE and Arias & Bleis both had 2 hits. Ehrlicher went 4 IP, 4H, 1 ER, 1BB, 5K in the other game.

[moonslav59]

7 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

New SP rankings:

Graduated
#1 Roman Anthony 
#2 Marcelo Mayer

Debuts
Kyson Witherspoon at 4
Marcus Phillips at 15
Anthony Eyanson at 16
Henry Godbout at 25
Mason White at 40
Christian Foutch at 47
Barrett Morgan at 51
Myles Patton at 55

Notable Risers (note graduations) 
Payton Tolle from 3 to 1
Yhoiker Fajardo from 22 to 19
Yophery Rodriguez from 42 to 37
Austin Ehrlicher from unranked to 57

Notable Fallers
James Tibbs from 7 to 10
Marvin Alcantara from 40 to 49
Antonio Anderson from 46 to unranked
Dalton Rodgers from 52 to unranked 
Justin Riemer from 54 to unranked

Grades
Payton Tolle floor from 4.5 to 5
James Tibbs floor from 4 to 3

Looks pretty good.

I'd go...

1. Tolle (1 SPs)

2. Garcia (5th)

3. Arias (2nd)

4. Perales (3rd)

5. Clarke (6th)

6. Witherspoon (4th)

7. Valera (7th)

8. Soto (12th)

9. Ju Gonzales (14th)

10. Early (8th)

11. Jo Garcia (39)

12. Romero 11

13. Phillips 15

14. Eyanson 16

15. Tibbs 10

16. Sandlin 9

17. Delzine 27

18. Bleis 13

19. Cespedes 17

20. Fajardo 20

[Larry Cook]

Painter had a decent day against Worcester. 6.1 innings 1 earned run! 4 strike outs. Mostly Garcia!!!!  

[Larry Cook]

Jordan went 3 for 5 today at Worcester! 
 

Ferguson with another tater today for Portland. Yesterday he had a grand tater! Song got blown up today 

Arias and blies with taters today. 
 

Gonzales and musset with 1 hit each today as Salem lost a heartbreaker in the bottom of the ninth 

 

 

[moonslav59]

Following the minors might be more fun than the big club, now.

Woo rained out.

POR won 2-1. Romero had 2 hits. Bolden pitched well. The Sea Dogs are 48-48.

GRE is losing 3-2, early. YRod with 2 hits.

[Larry Cook]

3 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Following the minors might be more fun than the big club, now.

Woo rained out.

POR won 2-1. Romero had 2 hits. Bolden pitched well. The Sea Dogs are 48-48.

GRE is losing 3-2, early. YRod with 2 hits.

Romero promoted to Worcester I think 

Castro  with the outfield assist 

[Larry Cook]

3 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Following the minors might be more fun than the big club, now.

Woo rained out.

POR won 2-1. Romero had 2 hits. Bolden pitched well. The Sea Dogs are 48-48.

GRE is losing 3-2, early. YRod with 2 hits.

Arias and Yophary with two hits each. Arias slowly breaking out of his slump 

[Larry Cook]

Justin Gonzales with 3 hits today. 2 doubles. Now hitting over .280! 
only 18 years old! 

[moonslav59]

Our farm is looking very good, despite all the graduations.

I expect our farm pitching to take off in the next 1-3 years.

I think our everyday prospects will hold their own.

C: Jo Garcia, Brannon, Salazar, Jo Rod

1B: Campbell (graduated)

2B: Cespedes, Cason, M White, Alcantara, Godbout (Grissom- graduated)

SS: Arias, Ramos (Sogard)

3B: Romero, Reimer, Nunez

LF: Y Rod, Yuten, Azocar, Cespedes? (Eaton)

CF: Taylor, Bleis, Rivas  (Castro)

RF: Jh Garcia, Ju Gonzales

DH: Hickey, Cespedes?

It's not great, but with so many showing promise, I expect enough to jump up and shine.

The rotations look very promising, with some needing to move to the pen:

AAA: Harrison, Fitts, Tolle, Early, Uberstine, Sandlin, Perales, Wehunt, Drohan (That's 9, if none make the big squad!)

AA: Clarke, Paez, Holobetz, Rivera, Rogers/Dean (maybe a AAA guys starts out at AA) Monegro will be on the IL

A+: Valera, Witherspoon, Phillips, Evanson, Aita, Tygart, Judice (IL)

A-: Fajardo, Neely, Travieso, J Bello, J Gartrell, Y Ruiz, M Patton, B Morgan, D Brown

FCL looks very promising: Cason, Delzine, Reyes, Frias, Zink, Cordero

[mvp 78]

We are in promotion season

[Larry Cook]

14 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Our farm is looking very good, despite all the graduations.

I expect our farm pitching to take off in the next 1-3 years.

I think our everyday prospects will hold their own.

C: Jo Garcia, Brannon, Salazar, Jo Rod

1B: Campbell (graduated)

2B: Cespedes, Cason, M White, Alcantara, Godbout (Grissom- graduated)

SS: Arias, Ramos (Sogard)

3B: Romero, Reimer, Nunez

LF: Y Rod, Yuten, Azocar, Cespedes? (Eaton)

CF: Taylor, Bleis, Rivas  (Castro)

RF: Jh Garcia, Ju Gonzales

DH: Hickey, Cespedes?

It's not great, but with so many showing promise, I expect enough to jump up and shine.

The rotations look very promising, with some needing to move to the pen:

AAA: Harrison, Fitts, Tolle, Early, Uberstine, Sandlin, Perales, Wehunt, Drohan (That's 9, if none make the big squad!)

AA: Clarke, Paez, Holobetz, Rivera, Rogers/Dean (maybe a AAA guys starts out at AA) Monegro will be on the IL

A+: Valera, Witherspoon, Phillips, Evanson, Aita, Tygart, Judice (IL)

A-: Fajardo, Neely, Travieso, J Bello, J Gartrell, Y Ruiz, M Patton, B Morgan, D Brown

FCL looks very promising: Cason, Delzine, Reyes, Frias, Zink, Cordero

I am a bit (slightly) concerned that our farm system is light on quality bats!  Arias, Campbell, Gonzales, password and maybe Romero!!!!  
I know we just graduated a bunch of bats these past two years and traded away some very nice bats to Chicago. (Well worth it I might add) 

but we have to keep talent in the funnel 

[Soxlover]

2 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

I am a bit (slightly) concerned that our farm system is light on quality bats!  Arias, Campbell, Gonzales, password and maybe Romero!!!!  
I know we just graduated a bunch of bats these past two years and traded away some very nice bats to Chicago. (Well worth it I might add) 

but we have to keep talent in the funnel 

The ins that just graduated have 5 years. That’s enough time to build back up.

[Larry Cook]

39 minutes ago, Soxlover said:

The ins that just graduated have 5 years. That’s enough time to build back up.

Maybe! But what flexibility do we have while waiting for the next batch????

[moonslav59]

On 7/29/2025 at 9:22 AM, mvp 78 said:

He's the last resort call up. 

Criswell did very well as a SP'er for the Sox, last year.

We started 9 other pitchers before him, this year. It would have been 10 had Sandoval been ready.

[moonslav59]

Woo won 2, today.

JH Garcia his a granny as Sandlin pitched very well. Kelly, too.

Garcia had 2 hits in the other win. Harrison allowed 10 H+BB in 5 IP, but he only allowed 2 runs.

Rogers pitched very well in the 2-1 loss by POR.

Futrell went 5IP allowing just 1BB & 1 hit.

[Larry Cook]

3 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Woo won 2, today.

JH Garcia his a granny as Sandlin pitched very well. Kelly, too.

Garcia had 2 hits in the other win. Harrison allowed 10 H+BB in 5 IP, but he only allowed 2 runs.

Rogers pitched very well in the 2-1 loss by POR.

Futrell went 5IP allowing just 1BB & 1 hit.

In the Portland game, Castro with the outfield assist at third base!!!

in the Salem game, Justin Gonzales with the sacrifice fly to win it 1-0 for Salem. 

[moonslav59]

Early struggled with control: 5BB in 3.2 IP, but allowed no runs and just 2 hits. Jh Garcia hit his 14th dinger and has 2 hits through 6 innings. KC & Grissom are both 1 for 3.

Both DSL teams won, today and are now over .500 after pretty bad starts. The Red team pitched a 1 hitter. The Blue team allowed 2 hits.

[moonslav59]

POR won 4-1. Tolle 4 IP, 1H, 0ER 2BB 6K

Clarke got lit up: 0.2 2H 3ER 3BB 1K. Taylor homered.

SAL up 6-0, late. Fajardo is poised to jump in the rankings: 5.2 1H 0ER 0BB 8K. Ju Gonzales 3-4 w HR & 2B & BB.

[Larry Cook]

2 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

POR won 4-1. Tolle 4 IP, 1H, 0ER 2BB 6K

Clarke got lit up: 0.2 2H 3ER 3BB 1K. Taylor homered.

SAL up 6-0, late. Fajardo is poised to jump in the rankings: 5.2 1H 0ER 0BB 8K. Ju Gonzales 3-4 w HR & 2B & BB.

Tolle on a limited pitch count I think 

[moonslav59]

2 minutes ago, Larry Cook said:

Tolle on a limited pitch count I think 

He and others.

[Larry Cook]

Password had a tater in three straight games now 

[moonslav59]

5 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Password had a tater in three straight games now 

More OF depth on an already crowded ML roster.

If we didn't need Rafaela at 2B, not trading an OF'er could have ended up being grounds for a criminal investigation.

[Larry Cook]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

More OF depth on an already crowded ML roster.

If we didn't need Rafaela at 2B, not trading an OF'er could have ended up being grounds for a criminal investigation.

Except for Mayer injury, I think bres-slow really likes our position player lineup! 
 

I think he was frustrated that he could not use only prospects to get pitchers 

[Larry Cook]

I think the Red Sox just promoted Tolle to Worcester!!!!  
the Worcester rotation is now crazy good 

[Larry Cook]

Password with one tater and Romero with 2 taters today. Fitts with a nice day too! 
 

Musset with a tater for Salem, 

[moonslav59]

20 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Except for Mayer injury, I think bres-slow really likes our position player lineup! 
I think he was frustrated that he could not use only prospects to get pitchers 

I'm not so sure he likes trading prospects either. 

I have to think he could have gotten better than M & M by offering other prospects, or better one. He couldn't fine a LHB 1Bman for even just a deal like Cespedes & Mullins?

[moonslav59]

Who is the odd MEN out of the Woo rotation?

1. Tolle

2. Criswell

3. Fitts

4. Sandlin

5. Early

6. Uberstine

7. de Leon (okay, he's the easy one, but...)

Second Q: Do we promote someone to POR, or demote de Leon?

[Larry Cook]

13 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Who is the odd MEN out of the Woo rotation?

1. Tolle

2. Criswell

3. Fitts

4. Sandlin

5. Early

6. Uberstine

7. de Leon (okay, he's the easy one, but...)

Second Q: Do we promote someone to POR, or demote de Leon?

Last time pitching, uberstine pitched out of the bullpen. If uberstine wants to get to Boston with his fringy stuff. The bullpen is the way to go. 

Acala is ready for a trip to the DL with a strained forearm!! 

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

17 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Who is the odd MEN out of the Woo rotation?

1. Tolle

2. Criswell

3. Fitts

4. Sandlin

5. Early

6. Uberstine

7. de Leon (okay, he's the easy one, but...)

Second Q: Do we promote someone to POR, or demote de Leon?

Tolle -- he'll be groomed as a reliever for the stretch run.

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Tolle -- he'll be groomed as a reliever for the stretch run.

Prospects we may see in September: Harrison (on the 40 man), Sandlin (needs to be added for rule 5 anyway), Tolle