2026 Prospects

[mvp 78]

Jack Winnay 

April 644 OPS, 1 HR

May 1113 OPS, 7 HR

[mvp 78]

Jack Winnay is still learning 3b, but may be taken off of it sooner than later.

28 G, 9 E, .866 %

He was 1B/OF in College. I think having him play 3B was to find him more AB's and to fill an org need. 

[moonslav59]

Winnay homered twice, yesterday. He had a great month (1.123.) On the season, he has drawn 43 BBs, which is more than the #2 (Godbout 22) and #3 (IJack 19) Sox farm players combined.

[moonslav59]

3 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

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

I've never been as high as sxoprospects.com on Romero. I felt the same about Castro.

I used to be higher on Cespedes, then all but gave up on him, and now look.

Bleis looks like a goner, now. (Maybe he'll pull a Cespedes.)

[moonslav59]

Is it too early to start raving about the advances our farm has made over the last 1-2 years in the area of Catching?

Franklin Primera (IFA Sept '24) in FCL as an 18 year old. He has a 1.092 OPS in 47 ABs.

Luke Heyman (2025 trade for Hoppe) Recently promoted to A+ as a 22 year old. He's hitting .833 in A-/A+ ball.

Geraldo Rodriguez (IFA '23) In A+ as a 20 year old.

Hudson White (drafted in '2024) In A+ as a 23 year old. .766 at GRE.

Johanfran Garcia (IFA '22 is not really recent, but he missed some time with an injury.) .774 at POR w 8 HRs in 108 ABs

Adonys Guzman (2025 trade involving Oviedo & Jh Garcia) ,717 at A-/A+

Ronny Hernandez (2025 trade for Chris Murphy) In A+

Jorge Rodriguez (IFA '24) in FCL as a 19 y/o. 1.001 OPS in just 25 ABs.

Jason Delay and Matt Thaiss (decent MiLB winter AAA signings) 1.248 OPS in 31 ABs lead the Sox minors.

Nate Baez (2025 trade for Tristan Gray) in AA as a 25 year old. .807 with Portland.

Brooks Brannon plays 1B, now, but could maybe be a 3rd catcher. He's hitting .995 at AA. Nathan Hickey is a similar guy and is at .695 w WOO.

[moonslav59]

My June 1st Prospect Rankings:

1. Tolle (soon to graduate)

2. Arias (top 15 nationally)

3. Eyanson (moving up and up)

4. Gonzalez (only 19)

5. Valera (major surgery but still...)

6. Witherspoon (needs to start dominating)

7. Godbout (looking good)

8. Phillips (of to a decent start)

9. Soto (only 18)

10. Azocar (19 and on fire)

11. Cespedes (The man without a position)

12. Bennett (Could be back in BOS.)

Honorable mentions:

Heyman & Johanfran (Catchers with hope)

YRod & Delzine (High hopes)

Ramos & Rivas (two 18 year olds)

Holobetz & Samaniego (Who knows?)

Bastardo and Wehunt (23 & 25 year olds)

 

[moonslav59]

FCL won 14-10 with only 4 hits! They drew 15 BBs!!! Sox pitchers allowed 10 hits and walked 14!

DSL began the season today. The Red team allowed 11Bs and 13 hits, but the team won 13-11 on 10 hits and 8 BBs. The Blue team lost 9-6 and allowed 10 BBs and 12 hits. Rubel Arias homered.

In the 3 rookie league games, our pitchers walked 35 batters and allowed 35 Hits! Damn!

[mvp 78]

18 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I've never been as high as sxoprospects.com on Romero. I felt the same about Castro.

I used to be higher on Cespedes, then all but gave up on him, and now look.

Bleis looks like a goner, now. (Maybe he'll pull a Cespedes.)

Bleis hasn't had a good statline since FCL in '22. He's toast. 

[mvp 78]

12 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

FCL won 14-10 with only 4 hits! They drew 15 BBs!!! Sox pitchers allowed 10 hits and walked 14!

DSL began the season today. The Red team allowed 11Bs and 13 hits, but the team won 13-11 on 10 hits and 8 BBs. The Blue team lost 9-6 and allowed 10 BBs and 12 hits. Rubel Arias homered.

In the 3 rookie league games, our pitchers walked 35 batters and allowed 35 Hits! Damn!

The pitching is really dreadful in DSL and FCL. Can't rely on those numbers for much of anything TBH. Scary how bad some of the pitching has been early on. At least with DSL and FCL, there's a little bit of an excuse. 

[Old Red]

KC down to .239. 12-64 in May with 1 HR 6 RBI, and 29 K’S. Highly SUSPECT.🤫

[mvp 78]

KC 2025

 

[mvp 78]

KC 2026

 

[mvp 78]

He's hitting the ball a lot harder than last season. The results aren't there yet on the field, but the underlying data is ok. He needs to keep playing it out. 

[Old Red]

10 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

He's hitting the ball a lot harder than last season. The results aren't there yet on the field, but the underlying data is ok. He needs to keep playing it out. 

29 K’S in 64 AB isn’t exactly hitting much at all.

[moonslav59]

33 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

He's hitting the ball a lot harder than last season. The results aren't there yet on the field, but the underlying data is ok. He needs to keep playing it out. 

A kernal of hope, but the Ks are frightening.

[Larry Cook]

On 6/1/2026 at 1:31 PM, moonslav59 said:

My June 1st Prospect Rankings:

1. Tolle (soon to graduate)

2. Arias (top 15 nationally)

3. Eyanson (moving up and up)

4. Gonzalez (only 19)

5. Valera (major surgery but still...)

6. Witherspoon (needs to start dominating)

7. Godbout (looking good)

8. Phillips (of to a decent start)

9. Soto (only 18)

10. Azocar (19 and on fire)

11. Cespedes (The man without a position)

12. Bennett (Could be back in BOS.)

Honorable mentions:

Heyman & Johanfran (Catchers with hope)

YRod & Delzine (High hopes)

Ramos & Rivas (two 18 year olds)

Holobetz & Samaniego (Who knows?)

Bastardo and Wehunt (23 & 25 year olds)

 

2 more to keep your eye on, in your spare time:

M. White - love the swing. Please do not sleep on him. If he can learn to pick up the spin of the ball and hit off speed and not chase with two strikes, he might surprise some people, 

tucker - defensively, he makes devers look like a gold glover!!  But offensively, he reminds me of a young rafeala!!! Strange how a guy with no plan, strategy or vision when he steps in the batters box, is able to get so many hits!!!  Definitely a guy to watch (in your spare time) going forward. 
 

 

[Larry Cook]

Bennett, evayson and Phillips (yes Phillips) all with good starts tonight. 
 

Salem pitchers combined for 13 strike outs tonight. (Golf clap!!!).  And …. 13 walks tonight (we need smelling salt for those that passed out) 

[Larry Cook]

At Portland - liendo with his 2nd tater of the season, username Garcia with his 9th tater and turner with his 6th tater. 
 

ar Greenville - winnay with his 9th tater and 11th error of the season!!  
 

on the season winnay with 46 walks and 42 strike outs. 

[mvp 78]

9 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

At Portland - liendo with his 2nd tater of the season, username Garcia with his 9th tater and turner with his 6th tater. 
 

ar Greenville - winnay with his 9th tater and 11th error of the season!!  
 

on the season winnay with 46 walks and 42 strike outs. 

Keeping Winnay at 3b so that they can play Antonio Anderson at 1b for some reason. 

[Larry Cook]

At Salem - Nunez with his 5th tater of the year 

At Worcester - ward with his 2nd tater of the year. Cheng with is 5th tater. 
 

 

[mvp 78]

KC is out due to an injury caused when sliding. No timetable for return.

[Larry Cook]

At Worcester - McDonough with his 1st tater of the season 

At Greenville - winnay with his 10th tater and m white with his 10th tater. And Hernandez with his 4th tater. 

[Old Red]

On 6/5/2026 at 9:09 AM, mvp 78 said:

KC is out due to an injury caused when sliding. No timetable for return.

KC is back sort of. If May wasn’t bad enough June hasn’t started out to well either going 1-17 with 6 K’S. 67 K’S in 180 AB for the season. Ouch! Hang in there kid.🤫

[mvp 78]

Johanfran Garcia (too bad the glove isn't very good)

May 863 OPS

June 1212 OPS

Franklin Arias still has a 990 OPS. Wonder if they are getting him more reps as SS in POR and treating WOO as the BOS taxi squad. Probably keeping Arias away from MLB for this year. Maybe a callup after the AA ASG? Not sure he has anything left to prove there. He's also young for the league too.

D'Angelo Ortiz hit his first pro tater last night.

Jack Winnay (needs to move off 3b)

May 1113 OPS

June 1027 OPS

Time for a promotion to AA. 

[mvp 78]

How bad is the pitching in the lower minors? Well, here's the boxscore from yesterday's FCL game:

 

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

20 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

How bad is the pitching in the lower minors? Well, here's the boxscore from yesterday's FCL game:

 

Soto is a bust.

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Soto is a bust.

SoxProspects curse. A guy who was rocketed to the top of the rankings while still in the DSL just because someone's eyeballs popped out of their heads due to the heat (see also: Gilberto Jimenez, Miguel Bleis, Antoni Flores, Luis Alexander Basabe, Oscar Tejada).

[mvp 78]