2026 Prospects

[moonslav59]

3 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Big shake-up on soxprospects.com's rankings, since I got back.

https://www.soxprospects.com/index.html

Some stats...

OPS Leaders (150+ PAs)

1.007 Brannon AA

.977 Arias AA

.941 M White A+

.927 Jo Garcia AA

.902 Godbout A+A+

50-149 PAs

1.180 Ro Hernandez A+

1.083 Jo Rodriguez CPX

.896 Mussett A

.860 Brito CPX

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FIP (20+ IP)

2.34 Ingrassia

2.63 Brown

2.96 Eyanson

3.03 Delzine & Bennett

3.11 Berrios

3.25 Bastardo

3.24 Rivera

3.35 B Morgan

 

 

 

 

[moonslav59]

With #1 Tolle and #3 Early graduating (and #30 Watson), many prospects rose up by attrition, but some jumped more than 2 slots.

6>2 Eyanson

10>4 Bennett

11>6 Godbout

15>7 Azocar

23>11 Delzine

36>13 Primera

34>14 Cespedes

32>15 Rivera

29>24  G Rodriguez

31>25  Heyman

38>27 M White

35>28 Finley

The tumblers:

5>8 Valera

12>19 Romero

13>16 Uberstine

16>30 Castro

17>23 Ramos

22>52 Taylor

26>29 Silvero

28>39 Ziehl

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The lower 30 movers

60>31 D Brown

53>33 Brannon

51>34 Jo Garcia

55>35 YRod

NR>37 Andujar

NR>40 Winnay

54>45 McShane

NR>48 Mayers, NR>49 Berny Ortiz, NR>50 amboa

Tumblers:

33>43 Bleis

43>53  Guzman

 

 

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Franklin Primera is first (haha) in OPS: 1.337 in 76 ABs.

But if he sticks at catcher, he could change his last name to Receptor.

[moonslav59]

It's nice to see a few DSL and FCL players off to good and great starts.

[moonslav59]

On the farm today...

Uberstine pitched 4 ip from the pen: 2 hits, 2 BB and 4 Ks (1 ER) Cheng hit his 6th homer, Capra (.802) Romero (.645) & Thaiss (.645) have 2 hits each.

Wehunt got lit up for 6 runs, but POR won 7-6. Romy, Baez and Alcantara homered.

GRE won 2-1 as Futrell pitched a 7 IP gem (2 hits, 0BB, 5K and 0 ER) Winnay went 3 for 3 (.920)

SAL lost 7-2. Not much good to say.

FCL Sox are tied 8-8 late. Delzine struggled. Rivas has homered and Soto is 3 for 4. Frazier homered and is 2-4, while Bravo is 2 for 5.

Silverio homered in DSL Blues team loss.

Jo Ramirez homered and went 4-4 in Red's 17-11 loss. The Sox pitchers walked 16 batters!.

DSL Gold lost 8-3

[Old Red]

57 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

On the farm today...

Uberstine pitched 4 ip from the pen: 2 hits, 2 BB and 4 Ks (1 ER) Cheng hit his 6th homer, Capra (.802) Romero (.645) & Thaiss (.645) have 2 hits each.

Wehunt got lit up for 6 runs, but POR won 7-6. Romy, Baez and Alcantara homered.

GRE won 2-1 as Futrell pitched a 7 IP gem (2 hits, 0BB, 5K and 0 ER) Winnay went 3 for 3 (.920)

SAL lost 7-2. Not much good to say.

FCL Sox are tied 8-8 late. Delzine struggled. Rivas has homered and Soto is 3 for 4. Frazier homered and is 2-4, while Bravo is 2 for 5.

Silverio homered in DSL Blues team loss.

Jo Ramirez homered and went 4-4 in Red's 17-11 loss. The Sox pitchers walked 16 batters!.

DSL Gold lost 8-3

KC 0-5 with 4 K’S, and getting worse as the season goes on. 3-30 in June with 12 K’S, and down to .218 on the season after going 12-64 with 29 K’S in May. He looks like a lost cause at the moment, and looks like the Red Sox have, and had a hand in that.🤔

[moonslav59]

Devin Futrell might be the sleeper pick on the farm.

soxprospects.com has him at #58.

While Gage Ziehl dropped from 28 to 39, I think he might rebound.

The rebound trio could be Cespedes (34>14) Jo Garcia (51>34) and YRod (55>35.)

Dylan Brown made sp.com's largest leap from 60 to 31, and Primera jumped from 36 to 13, but they are not "rebounding."

[mvp 78]

On 6/16/2026 at 9:58 PM, Old Red said:

KC 0-5 with 4 K’S, and getting worse as the season goes on. 3-30 in June with 12 K’S, and down to .218 on the season after going 12-64 with 29 K’S in May. He looks like a lost cause at the moment, and looks like the Red Sox have, and had a hand in that.🤔

Those stats are just SUSPECT. Need to see what he can do in MLB before I make a judgement on what he can do as a player. 

[Old Red]

7 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Those stats are just SUSPECT. Need to see what he can do in MLB before I make a judgement on what he can do as a player. 

He’s got to get back there first, and at the moment that seems like a longer distance than it is from WOO to Boston.

[moonslav59]

The mostly, highly ranked Sox farm is not translating to wins on the farm. Sound familiar?

35-32 WOO AAA (+1 run differential)

32-32 POR AA (-30)

26-36 GRE A+ (-49)

24-40 SAL A- (-40)

16-17 FCL (+1)

7-18 two DSL teams combined

 

 

[moonslav59]

The farm might be the only baseball worth watching.

Cheng (.794) hit his 7th HR and had 3 hits in WOO's 5-4 loss. Romero (.654) & Castro (.605) had 2 hits. Romero walked once.

Turner homered (9th, 2 hits and at .803, now) in POR's 7-6 win. Brannon (,990), Alcantara (.632) and Tucker also has 2 hits. Mullins & Sansone got roughed up.

GRE lost 8-5 as Ingrassia let up 1 run in 3 IP (3H, 3BB, 3K) YRod hit is 11th and is at .794. Heyman (.821) his his 3rd, walked once and had 2 hits. Winnay walked 3 times.

SAL won 10-5 desite 6 BBs in 1.1 IP by Gartrell. The staff walked 12! Opata hit his 4th, while nobody had 2 hits. SAL did walk 8 times, so 5 batters had 1 H and 1 BB.

[moonslav59]

Lowest OPS Against (25+ IP)

.403 Delzine

.443 Eyanson

.459 B Morgan

.545 Mayers

.570 Bennett

.573 Rivera

.583 Rogers

.587 Olds

.625 Mullins (before today's meltdown)

.639 Futrell

.645 Brooks

.657 Bolden

.669 Brown

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15-24.2 IP:

.471 Berrios

.483 Ingrassia

.492 Guerrero

.516 Da Reyes

.545 Kahnle

.566 Tolbert

,607 B Ortiz

.613 Bido

.619 Tolle

.623 Walker

.634 Uberstine

,649 Paez

[moonslav59]

Top OPS (100+ PAs)

1.333 Primera FCL

.990 Brannon AA

.953 Arias AA

.947 Gasper AAA

.918 Winnay A+

.916 Garcia AA

.915 M White A+

.902 Godbout A+

.879 Azocar A/A+

.871 Sogard AAA

.855 Rivas FCL

.832 Seigler AAA & A+

.809 Heyman A/A+

.801 Capra AAA

.798 Eaton AAA/ .794 Cheng AAA/.793 YRod A+

 

[Larry Cook]

On 6/12/2026 at 12:59 PM, mvp 78 said:

 

I watched the taller kid from ole miss, rabe, pitch 3 times in the post season and he is a guy whose pitching reminds me of the kid from tenn. that we took in last year’s draft!!

bres-slow spent 3 early picks last year on sec pitchers. I could see bres-slow being interested in rabe from ole miss or deitz from Arkansas. 

[moonslav59]

Who is the F'd up GM who signed this doofus Primera?

2 HRs today, 3 for 4 and a 1.410 OPS over almost 110 PAs!

How about the DSL Red team? Outhit 14-4, but they won 15-13!!! They drew 17 BBs, including 5 by their leadoff hitter! DSL Blue lost 7-2.

Zeihl pitched well for POR 9Ks and 0 BB in 5 IP (4H and 2 ER) Liendo homered and Taylor has 2 hits. Sea Dogs up 6-2 into the 9th.

Bello is pitching for Woo and is in the 5th (6H, 3 ER, 1BB, 5Ks) Seigler has 2 hits in a 3-3 game.

[moonslav59]

From sp's.com...

Did Franklin Primera get a hit today? Of course he did. With his three-hit, two-homer effort on Friday, he has a commanding lead in that circuit in all three slash-stat categories. Hitting .464/.589/.821, he holds nearly a .300 point lead in OPS. During his 15-game hitting streak, he is 26 for 50 (.520), with seven home runs and four doubles, good for a 1.020 slugging percentage. He also celebrated his 19th birthday on Tuesday.

[moonslav59]

All minor league players with 110+ PAs (1512 players):

1. Primera .464 BA 1st, .589 OBP 1st, .821 SLG 1st, 1.411 OPS 1st

2. Frias at .439/.518/.684/1.203

3. J Cox at .400/.453/.644/1.096

Brannon is 60th at .976

111. Gasper .947

134. Arias .935 (slumping)

141. Mason White .932

171. Jo Garcia .915

208. Godbout .902

213. Winnay .900 (22K%-21BB%)

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XFIP Leaders 564 pitchers with 40+ IP

1. Kade Anderson 2.40

2. Eyanson 2.92

25. Ziehl 3.46

36. Brown 3.61

93. Mullins 4.01

 

[moonslav59]

POR won 7-6. Arias went 3 for 5 and jumped to .946.Brannon homered and is at .998. Jo Garcia went 2-5 and is at .911.

[moonslav59]

Eventually, we may see Arias, Brannan or Garcia to AAA. Maybe a pitcher or two from Eyanson, Mullins, Paez, Holobetz, Wehunt or Rogers.

What about GRE>POR? Cespedes, Winnay, Mason & Hudson White, G Rod? (Not sure 19 y/o Gonzalez will start 2027 in A+. Pitchers: Futrell, Brown or Ingrassia? (Witherspoon?)

SAL>GRE? Opata, A Guzman or Musett? Tygart? Gartrell?

FCL>SAL? 18 yr old Primera? Jorge Rodriguez?

[moonslav59]

Gonzales homered in GRE's 4-1 win. Cespedes, YRod and IJackson all doubled. Bouchard 5 IP & Hansen 4IP combined to allow just 4 hits and 2 BBs (1 ER w 10 Ks)

SAL lost 9-1 but was only outhit 10-9. The difference was 11 BBs to 6.

[moonslav59]

Capra homered in WOOs win. Delay had 3 hits. Thaiss, Hickey, Ward & Capra had 2.

POR lost 6-4, but Eyanson went 4 scoreless innings (3H, 1BB, 5K) Arias is heating back up (3-5 w HR) Liendo homered, too.

GRE lost 7-6 as Phillips went 4.1 (7H, 3ER, 1BB, 5K) Gonzales (.780), Cespedes & Jackson (.749) homered, Cespedes went 3-3 (.862)

SAL is playing very badly. They lost 3-0.

[mvp 78]

On 6/19/2026 at 8:11 PM, moonslav59 said:

How about the DSL Red team? Outhit 14-4, but they won 15-13!!! They drew 17 BBs, including 5 by their leadoff hitter!

Uh, that just sounds like a real poorly pitched game? 

[mvp 78]

On 6/20/2026 at 9:13 PM, moonslav59 said:

Eventually, we may see Arias, Brannan or Garcia to AAA. Maybe a pitcher or two from Eyanson, Mullins, Paez, Holobetz, Wehunt or Rogers.

What about GRE>POR? Cespedes, Winnay, Mason & Hudson White, G Rod? (Not sure 19 y/o Gonzalez will start 2027 in A+. Pitchers: Futrell, Brown or Ingrassia? (Witherspoon?)

SAL>GRE? Opata, A Guzman or Musett? Tygart? Gartrell?

FCL>SAL? 18 yr old Primera? Jorge Rodriguez?

I'm sure a lot of these guys will eventually get promotions. I think the Sox are now in the mode that a callup to WOO means you're ready to be sent to BOS at a moments notice. Brian Abraham has said as much a few times. I think that's why they seem to be slower with some of the promotions. You need to make sure that all these moves leave playing time for everyone. 

Arias is probably moved sometime around the MiLB ASG. Primera could get called up as nobody is going to stand in his way. I think everyone else is just biding their time and waiting for spots to clear up. Once the FCL season ends and the draft happens, the Sox will make some moves to clear room for guys to move around the org a bit more. 

Again, I don't take too much stock in the overall offensive numbers at GRE this year. You can tell how they feel about a player with where they bat him in the lineup. If a guy has a 900 OPS, but is still hitting 8th, they probably have him on a lower tier than the guys they keep putting up at the top of the lineup. They are definitely not going to call someone up just because of how their boxscore looks that's for sure. 

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Uh, that just sounds like a real poorly pitched game? 

Looks that way. I doubt it is a sign they all have a a "good eye."

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

I'm sure a lot of these guys will eventually get promotions. I think the Sox are now in the mode that a callup to WOO means you're ready to be sent to BOS at a moments notice. Brian Abraham has said as much a few times. I think that's why they seem to be slower with some of the promotions. You need to make sure that all these moves leave playing time for everyone. 

Arias is probably moved sometime around the MiLB ASG. Primera could get called up as nobody is going to stand in his way. I think everyone else is just biding their time and waiting for spots to clear up. Once the FCL season ends and the draft happens, the Sox will make some moves to clear room for guys to move around the org a bit more. 

Again, I don't take too much stock in the overall offensive numbers at GRE this year. You can tell how they feel about a player with where they bat him in the lineup. If a guy has a 900 OPS, but is still hitting 8th, they probably have him on a lower tier than the guys they keep putting up at the top of the lineup. They are definitely not going to call someone up just because of how their boxscore looks that's for sure. 

Good points, and most of the players on the Woo team do look like ML depth, but I do think a player or two is 2-3 players away from a call-up.

I think we will trade Wong this summer, but we wont call up a catcher, so promoting Jo Garcia to AAA might wait until 2027.

Llyod as the back-up 1Bman probably would never get a call, as others can play 1B. If Romy gets the call when healthy, maybe he adds the depth that makes cutting Lloyd doable. Brannon may be "ready," even without Romy making the roster.There is also room at AAA DH for Brannon or Garcia to get FT play between C/1B and DH.

McDonough or Ferguson could probably be let go, so Arias can get the promotion, but no hurry, I guess.

The AAA OF depth is thin. As you know, I'm no Castro fan, but no AA OF'er looks all that deserving.

[moonslav59]

Here is how soxprospects.com projects some prospects' placements for 2027. I'll start with the 2026, 2027 and 2028 ETAs to the bigs, knowing full well, only a few will get the call, barring many injuries.

2026: 4. Bennett, 15. E Rivera, 16. Uberstine

Early 2027: 1. Arias, 19. Romero

Mid/Late 2027: 2. Eyanson, 3. Witherspoon, 12. Holobetz, 14. Cespedes, 20. Bastardo, 21. Paez, 22. Mullins, 30. Castro (33. Brannon, 34. Garcia, 51 Rogers)

2028: 6. Godbout, 10. Phillips, 26. Monegro, 27. M White, 28. Finley

Those who do not make the big club will likely be placed in AAA, with a few at AA. Here are their projected opening day 2027 farm rosters:

AAA: SP-Bennett, Eyanson, Uberstine, Wehunt, Holobetz, Anderson/ RP-Samaniego, Rivera, Mullins, Song, Paez, Rogers, Zeihl, Gamboa (? Monegro/ Wu-Yelland?)/ C-Nate Baez, H White (No Garcia)/ 1B Brannon/ 2B B Rodgers, Seigler/ SS Sogard, Ferguson/ 3B Romero/ OF Castro, Ward, Campbell. Turner

AA: Witherspoon, Phillips, Brown, Ingrassia, Futrell, Bouchard/ Sprague, Brooks, Adams, Carlson, Bolden, Vogatasky, McShane, Bickerstaff/ Jo Garcia, GRod/ Encarnacion, RMartinez/ Cespedes, Alcantara/ Godbout/Winnay, CRose/ YRod, IJackson, Gonzales, N GTaylor/ MWhite

 

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Looks that way. I doubt it is a sign they all have a a "good eye."

Here's the bottom of the 2nd:

HBP

HBP

1b

pitching change

BB

K

BB

1b

ground out

pitching change

BB

HBP

BB

BB

BB

BB

pitching change

BB

fly out

[mvp 78]

57 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Good points, and most of the players on the Woo team do look like ML depth, but I do think a player or two is 2-3 players away from a call-up.

I think we will trade Wong this summer, but we wont call up a catcher, so promoting Jo Garcia to AAA might wait until 2027.

Llyod as the back-up 1Bman probably would never get a call, as others can play 1B. If Romy gets the call when healthy, maybe he adds the depth that makes cutting Lloyd doable. Brannon may be "ready," even without Romy making the roster.There is also room at AAA DH for Brannon or Garcia to get FT play between C/1B and DH.

McDonough or Ferguson could probably be let go, so Arias can get the promotion, but no hurry, I guess.

The AAA OF depth is thin. As you know, I'm no Castro fan, but no AA OF'er looks all that deserving.

Not sure they'd be in a rush to move guys like McDonough or Ferguson since they can fill in all over the field. They need to have guys who can just be bench guys and play wherever is needed on a daily basis. More likely that they'd move Cheng, Capra or Romero to make room for Arias. 

Castro's spot is secure through next season. There's just nobody to push him out. 

[moonslav59]

Here are the numbers of prospects Brez has traded for:

1.162 Ronny Hernandez (Chris Murphy trade)

.777 Luke Heyman (Hoppe)

.749 I Jackson (Grissom)

.744 A Guzman (Jh Garcia & Travieso)

,706 B Ward (Bernardino)

.705 Nate Baez (T Gray)

.786 YRod, .754 OPSA Holobetz & .822 Phillips (CB pick via trade for Priester)(Priester)

.570 OPSA Bennett (Perales)

.656 OPSA Jose Bello (Devers)

.793 OPSA Ziehl (Sandlin & Hicks)

 

[moonslav59]

20 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

 

Jack Winnay promoted to AA. He leads the farm in BBs with 53. He has 11 HRs and an .891 OPS.