2026 Prospects

[Larry Cook]

8 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Azocar got the callup. He'll really mash in the HR heavy SALY. 

Azocar and Heyman promoted to Greenville! 

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Azocar and Heyman promoted to Greenville! 

GRE was hyped to start the year based ona rotation that included Valera, Witherspoon, Eyanson & Phillips, but the offense has been amazing, and they just added these two:

Azocar .875 at SAL

Heyman .803 at SAL

1.054 Ro Hernandez

.942 Cespedes

.892 Gonzales

.872 Ma. White

.865 Godbout

.853 Winnay

.825 Hu. White

.766 Encarnacion

.760 A Guzman (was sent down to SAL)

Louis Andujar was promoted from FCL to SAL

Uberstine to rehab at GRE, while Erik FRivera was activated off the IL w POR.

[Larry Cook]

Eaton with his 5th tater. 
 

Herman with 2 taters and Cespedes with a tater, 

Tucker with a tater as well. 

[moonslav59]

Clean farm sweep (assuming GRE holds on to its 10-2 lead.)...

Gamboa went 4 scoreless in relief in Woo's win. Seigler had 2 hits to quietly go over .800.

Eyanson looked human but still K'd 8 in 4 IP. Brannon with 2 more hits (1.073.)

Welcome to GRE for Heyman and Azocar- they went 4-8. Heyman is making us ask Alex Hoppe who? Godbout hit his 7th. Cespedes is turned me back into a believer. (He's at .967, now.)

Morgan pitched well again for SAL.  His ERA is now 1.98. Tucker homered, again.

The minors are more fun to watch.

[sk7326]

Since Law has been posting videos on IG from scouting missions ... 

Keith Law (@mrkeithlaw) • Instagram reel

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57 likes, 3 comments - mrkeithlaw on May 25, 2026: "checked out some Red Sox prospects including Kyson Witherspoon and Yoeilin Cespedes - full writeup coming Tuesday #redsox...

 

[moonslav59]

Bennett pitched well in Woo's 8-1 win. 5 IP, 4H, 1ER, 1BB & 7Ks. Seigler is heating up as he homered & went 3-5. He's at .866, now. Ward, Eati=on, Capra and Castro all had 2 hits.

POR won 6-2 as Wehunt went 6 (3H, 1ER, 1BB, 8K) Arias homered (2-5) as did Jo Garcia (.791) & Turner (.781.)

GRE won 11-5. Phillips struggled. Azocar's promotion has been  stunning- he homered again and went 2-4. (1.500 in 2 gms) Mason White went 3-4 (.895) and Ro Hernandez homered and went 3-4 (1.248.) GRE had 11 hits and 8 BBs.

SAL lost 4-2. Cohen pitched 4 great innings in relief.Salazar went 2-4.

[mvp 78]

Law:

Arias 3

Eyanson 21

[mvp 78]

Also James "not highly ranked anywhere" Tibbs 24 👨‍🦯

[sk7326]

Some words on the rankings: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7311086/2026/05/28/mlb-prospects-top-50-midseason-update/

Arias

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Arias has already set a new career high in homers, with 11 in 36 games so far in Double A, but more impressive is how difficult it has been to strike him out: he has just 19 strikeouts on the season, a 12.3 percent rate, with a whiff rate on pitches in the zone of just 13 percent this year. Arias is very likely to stick at shortstop with excellent hands and a plus arm, with 25+ homer upside.

Eyanson

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If there’s one thing the Red Sox can do consistently on the development side, it’s add velocity. Boston’s third-round pick last year had been up to 98 at LSU, but sat more 93-94; he’s picked up about 2 full mph, hitting 100.2 mph in Boston’s Spring Breakout game, and everything else has been just as good if not better than it was in college. He still has that plus slider, which seems to break forever, while his curveball is a hammer that’s nearly 12/6, and his splitter has become a real weapon for him, with a 63 percent whiff rate in a small sample. He comes from a pretty high slot that adds some deception, although he can be a little north-south and doesn’t work inside that well to righties. I wrote in January that “I see a back-end starter future, although he could have a higher ceiling if the Red Sox can help him find a better fastball,” so, uh, well, that was fast.

Tibbs - now in LA

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King Tibbs the Third was traded twice last summer, landed with the Dodgers after the second deal, and on the Dodgers’ instruction, just went back to the way he hit in college. He’s at .316/.424/.599 in Triple A, with a hard-hit rate of 56.5 percent, tied for fourth in the PCL in homers, even though he doesn’t play in one of that league’s high-altitude hitters’ havens. He’s swinging hard, and has some whiff in there, especially on breaking stuff, that will probably make him more of a low-average power hitter in the majors but with enough damage on contact and walks to be an above-average right fielder.

BTW: In the IG post I had earlier ... besides the work in progress with Witherspoon's new delivery, the other highlight of the trip apparently was Cespedes bouncing back onto the serious prospect radar.

[moonslav59]

Not bad having these many top prospects with so many recent graduations.

Tolle & Early

Anthony & Mayer

Narvaez & Campbell

Rafaela, Abreu & Slaten

Duran, Crawford & Bello (not so recent as in '22)

 

[sk7326]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Not bad having these many top prospects with so many recent graduations.

Tolle & Early

Anthony & Mayer

Narvaez & Campbell

Rafaela, Abreu & Slaten

Duran, Crawford & Bello (not so recent as in '22)

 

True - though the team (particularly with position players) has been careless with the big league promotions

 

[moonslav59]

3 minutes ago, sk7326 said:

True - though the team (particularly with position players) has been careless with the big league promotions

 

I disagree. I do think KC was called up too early, but he was the prospect of the year, and we sucked at 2B, so I'm not making a fuss over it.

[Larry Cook]

The pipeline of young hitting talent is not totally dry for Boston. 
 

I just saw this kid for Salem, named andujar and although he may have gone zero for 4 today, his  swing is really impressive! Might be the next guy to watch, 
 

As far as hitting goes…..  andujar could be the next Azocar, and Azocar is the next Gonzales and Gonzales is the next arias!  
 

 

[moonslav59]

Jo Garcia might end up outplaying his brother. He homered again, tonight (#8.) Brannon had 2 hits and stayed over 1.000 as POR won 10-9. Holobetz got rocked hard.

Woo pitchers struck out 14 in a 1-0 win. Anderson had 8 in 4.2 IP. Seigler remains hot with a solo blast for the winner.

GRE won 3-2 as Futrell looked okay. (2 ER in 5 IP with no BBs and only 3 hits allowed- 6 Ks.) Hansen went 4 IP of 1 hit ball w just 1 BB.

SAL had the only farm loss 7-3. Jimenez homered and Opata had 2 hits.

[moonslav59]

Not even June yet, and the farm seems more interesting than the big club.

The pitching was supposed to be the "must watch" on the farm, and there has been some nice developments, especially with Eyanson and to some extent Dylan Brown, Bennett, Futrell and a few others I can't recall. (Valera before the surgery.) It turns out some bats have all but stolen the show.

Arias has captured the national spotlight with a 1.079 OPS and 12 HRs in AA as a 20 year old, but we have seen many others shine out of the gate...

1.057 Brannon w 7 HRs in 88 ABs

.954 Cespedes (10 HRs for my sleeper pick from years ago that I recently gave up on.)

.910 Godbout w GRE

.904 Azocar recently promoted to GRE and bashing there.

.891 Mason White at GRE

.883 Seigler may get the call

.863 YRod (Priester who?)

.859 Gonzales w GRE

.849 Heyman just promoted to GRE

.832 Winnay at GRE as well

.825 Hudson White- you guessed it... at  GRE

.813 Tucker coming on strong

.802 Jo Garcia w 8 HRs in 98 ABs

Some smaller sample sizes:

1.248 Ronny Hernandez GRE

1.131 Primera FCL

1.077 Andujar FCL>SAL

1.046 Cason FCL

1.003 Jorge Rodriguez FCL

Lord knows we need bats!

[mvp 78]

Just don't get too excited about the GRE numbers. Tiny ballparks and very bad pitching at that level. If you look at the league wide numbers, it's pretty rough in that league this year. We'll see what these guys can do once promoted to AA. 

[sk7326]

22 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I disagree. I do think KC was called up too early, but he was the prospect of the year, and we sucked at 2B, so I'm not making a fuss over it.

He had a single year of professional baseball - it was pretty silly.

[moonslav59]

13 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Just don't get too excited about the GRE numbers. Tiny ballparks and very bad pitching at that level. If you look at the league wide numbers, it's pretty rough in that league this year. We'll see what these guys can do once promoted to AA. 

Very true.

I think we have yet to see a GRE>POR promotion for an everyday player, this year.

[moonslav59]

Romero hit his 3rd HR of the season as Woo won. Castro & Eaton had 2 hits.

POR lost in 10. Arias & Bleis had 2 hits and Rose had 3. Baez homered.

GRE lost 13-8. M White his his 9th dinger and GRod added one, also. They both had 2 hits. Azocar went 1-5 but is still over 1.000 since his promotion. Heyman K'd 4 times while going 0-5.

SAL lost 9-3. Not much good happened.

[Old Red]

On 5/28/2026 at 1:09 PM, moonslav59 said:

I disagree. I do think KC was called up too early, but he was the prospect of the year, and we sucked at 2B, so I'm not making a fuss over it.

Nothing to fuss about. KC is hitting a whopping .247 for WOO, and 12-59 in May with 25 K’S. He’s gone from prospect to suspect, and not getting any closer to Boston than he was last year when he got sent back down to WOO. Heard someone talking about him who saw him in Woo a couple of weeks ago, and he said KC looked shaky in the OF, and his bat wasn’t any better.

[moonslav59]

Arias has the 5th best OPS in all of the minors (160+ PAs.) No top 13 batter is as young as he is, and the next 20 year old at AA is ranked 140 at .876.

With so many pitchers getting all the farm hype, recently, it's nice to see a SS who can hit get some attention.

[moonslav59]

Sox Farm OPS Leaders (100+ PAs)

1.070 Arias AA (12 HRs)

1.020 Brannon AA (7 HRs in 92 ABs)

.947 Cespedes A+ (10 HRs)

.947 Gasper AAA (Now in MLB)

.935 Mason White A+ (9 HRs in 132 ABs)

.910 Godbout A+

.891 Azocar A>A+

.883 Seigler AAA

.871 Sogard AAA

.859 Gonxales A+

.853 Ferguson AA>AAA

.851 YRod A+ (10 HRs)

.832 Winnay A+

.822 Eaton AAA

.819 Heyman A>A+

.817 Baez AA

.809 Tucker A>A+

.803 Encarnacion A+

.802 Jo Garcia (8 HRs in 98 ABs)

[moonslav59]

Eyanson leads all of the minors (30+ IP) in xFIP at 2.38.

Other top Sox:

3.27 Bennett

3.67 D Brown

3.77 Halligan & Ziehl

3.84 Mullins

[moonslav59]

Woo lost and nothing to report.

POR lost, too and nothing to say.

GRE lost big, but Azocar had 2 hits and Uberstine rehabbed.

Finley & Gartrell pitched very well in SAl's 5-1 win. Nunez 3-4 w 2 HRs

[Larry Cook]

11 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Eyanson leads all of the minors (30+ IP) in xFIP at 2.38.

Other top Sox:

3.27 Bennett

3.67 D Brown

3.77 Halligan & Ziehl

3.84 Mullins

Odd that Mullins is being skipped this week in the rotation. 

[moonslav59]

11 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Odd that Mullins is being skipped this week in the rotation. 

Could they be moving him to the pen?

[moonslav59]

WOO lost 1-0 as Gamboa did fine. The staff K'd 11 and walked 2, while allowing just 4 hits and a first inning HR. The bats mustered 3 hits as Cheng was 1-2 w a BB.

POR won 3-1. Ziehl, Carlson & Adames K'd 13, walked 1 and allowed just 6 hits.

GRE is up 1-0 after 4. Gonzales hit his 7th HR and Witherspoon is pitching.

SAL is just getting started.

[mvp 78]

On 5/30/2026 at 12:23 AM, moonslav59 said:

Romero hit his 3rd HR of the season as Woo won. Castro & Eaton had 2 hits.

POR lost in 10. Arias & Bleis had 2 hits and Rose had 3. Baez homered.

GRE lost 13-8. M White his his 9th dinger and GRod added one, also. They both had 2 hits. Azocar went 1-5 but is still over 1.000 since his promotion. Heyman K'd 4 times while going 0-5.

SAL lost 9-3. Not much good happened.

Feels like a lost season early on for Romero. Was hoping he'd continue to tick up. 

[mvp 78]

It's DSL Opening Day. 

[mvp 78]

On 5/31/2026 at 12:58 AM, Larry Cook said:

Odd that Mullins is being skipped this week in the rotation. 

They do intentional rest days in MiLB. Haven't heard about him moving to the pen.