2026 Prospects

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Early in Boston is still a prospect?

But Campbell in Woo is no longer a prospect? And what does that say for his prospects...

 

It's based on eligibility. Early is at 24.2 IP and less than 45 days. Campbell is at 229 AB's and more than 45 days. 

Rookie status is exhausted once a player: (1) has more than 130 at-bats in the majors; (2) has pitched more than 50 innings in the majors; or (3) has been on an active major league roster for more than 45 days (not including time on the injured list).

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

It's based on eligibility. Early is at 24.2 IP and less than 45 days. Campbell is at 229 AB's and more than 45 days. 

Rookie status is exhausted once a player: (1) has more than 130 at-bats in the majors; (2) has pitched more than 50 innings in the majors; or (3) has been on an active major league roster for more than 45 days (not including time on the injured list).

Thanks, I didn't realize it's based on days in the MLB.

So in order to be considered a prospect, a guy has to still be eligible to win Rookie of the Year in the majors.

In other words, Sogard and Eaton are no longer prospects, even though they are better bets than Arias this year to play in Boston. 

I'd also say if any position player on the list makes it to Boston this season it will Braiden Ward at #40... unless Romero rakes and there are so many injuries to infielders in Boston and Woo he gets the call.

Ward has one big league skill that can help a team win right now, and a pennant contender might be willing to trade for him, rather than someone like Campbell, who currently has none.

[moonslav59]

7 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

My guess is Paez is slotted in right behind Bastardo. 

He was 21st, last fall, and we've traded away 7 prospects that were higher than he was.

We added #10 Bennet and #19 Samaniego.

I'm thinking maybe a little above #21 Bastardo.

[moonslav59]

9 hours ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Thanks, I didn't realize it's based on days in the MLB.

So in order to be considered a prospect, a guy has to still be eligible to win Rookie of the Year in the majors.

In other words, Sogard and Eaton are no longer prospects, even though they are better bets than Arias this year to play in Boston. 

I'd also say if any position player on the list makes it to Boston this season it will Braiden Ward at #40... unless Romero rakes and there are so many injuries to infielders in Boston and Woo he gets the call.

Ward has one big league skill that can help a team win right now, and a pennant contender might be willing to trade for him, rather than someone like Campbell, who currently has none.

It is rather amazing how few top everyday prospects are near MLB ready. We have some decent ML depth in AAA, but all are graduates or AAAA types.

Romero & Ward with maybe Castro in between those two is all there is.

AA has....

2. Arias

22. Taylor

33. Bleis

42. Alcantara

[moonslav59]

After looking over the new rankings, I think my top 25 might be...

1. Early

2. Tolle

3. Arias

4. Witherspoon

5. Valera

6. Gonzales

7. Phillips

8. Eyanson

9. Soto

10. Godbout

11. Bennett

12. Holobetz

13. Azocar

14. Ramos

15. Rivas

16. Romero

17. Delzine

18. Paez

19. Samaniego

20. Bastardo

21. Uberstine

22. Silverio

23. Brito

24. Ziehl

25. Castro/Watson

Sleeper: Jo Garcia

[moonslav59]

Woo rained out.

GRE scored 5 in the 11th to get the win.

Valero: 7 Ks in 3.1 (2H, 2 ER, 2BB)

Encarnacion with a 3-run dinger.

Gonzales 0-5 w 3 Ks

SAL won 5-4 as Dylan Brown went 6 scoreless (2 H, 0 BB, 6K)

Nunez & King each with 2 hits.

[moonslav59]

Oviedo to 15 Day IL with right elbow strain. Yikes! He joins Crawford & Sandoval, already on the IL. Whitlock is on paternity leave. Casas has a new injury issue.

Uberstine was added to the 26.

 

[moonslav59]

Here is the distribution of top prospects by level:

Top 13 (4.5 to 5.5)

2 BOS: Early (3) and Uberstine (13)

3 WOO : Tolle (1) Bennett (10) Romero (12)

1 POR: Arias (2)

6 GRE: Witherspoon (4) Valera (5) Eyanson (6) Phillips (7) Gonzales (8) Godbout (11)

0 SAL

1 FCL: Soto (9)

____________________

14 to 30 (all 4.0's)

1 BOS: Watson (30)

3 WOO: Castro (16) Samaniego (19) Bastardo (21)

6 POR: Holobetz (14) Wehunt (20) Taylor (22) Mullins (24) Monegro (25) Ziehl (28) -Maybe Paez is added here.

1 GRE: G Rodriguez

1 SAL: Azocar (15)

3 FCL: Ramos (17) Rivas (18) Delzin (23)

2 DSL: Silverio (26) Brito (27)

___________________________

Top 30 (4 to 5.5)

3 BOS

6 WOO

7 POR

7 GRE

1 SAL

4 FCL

2 DSL

________________________

31-60

0 BOS

2 WOO (Ward & Song)

3 POR (Rivera, Alcantara & Rogers) 

7 GRE (Cespedes, White, Jackson, Guzman, Ingrassia, YRod, Ehrlicher)

8 SAL (Heyman, Finley, Morgan, Neely, Nunez, Foutch, Patton, Brown)

9 FCL/DSL (Primera, Cason, Wu-Yelland, Martin, Bravo, Garcia, Ogando, Brannon, McShane)

__________________

Top 60

3 BOS

8 WOO

10 POR

14 GRE

9 SAL

15 FCL/DSL

The only thing that kinda jumps out at me is that Salem has just one top 30 prospect and 3 in the top 43. GRE looks loaded.

 

 

[Larry Cook]

Salem - Tucker and Fermin with taters today. 
Greenville - Gonzales, white and zantanello all with taters today. 
Portland - Ferguson with a tater today. 
worcester - postponed 

 

[moonslav59]

6 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Salem - Tucker and Fermin with taters today. 
Greenville - Gonzales, white and zantanello all with taters today. 
Portland - Ferguson with a tater today. 
worcester - postponed 

 

Lots of taters. Not many good pitching lines.

Arias 2-4 (at 1.000, now)

Cespedes 3-5 (1.278)

Gonzales 3-5 (.900)

King 1-3 1.270

Fermin 1-2 (2.800)

[moonslav59]

Bennett pitched really well, today.

5 IP 1H 0ER 2BB 4K

Gasper, Eaton & Cheng homered in the 5-3 win. Sogard got on base in 3 of 5 PAs.

[moonslav59]

Holobetz looking good, today:

5 IP 2H 0ER 2BB 3K

Sea Dogs up 1-0 into the 9th.

[moonslav59]

Eyanson looked good.

3IP, 3H, 1ER, 0BB, 6K

Phillips not so good.

0.2, 3H, 4ER, 3BB, OK

Cespedes is on fire- 3 for 5 (up to 1.319)

Gonzales 1-4 w HR and BB

[moonslav59]

Foutch did well starting for Salem

3IP 0H 0ER 1BB 2K

Futrell did better and went 4

1H, 0ER, 1BB, 6K

Fermin w 2 hits (1.667)

[moonslav59]

Tolle looked a lot better, today. 6IP 4H, 1ER 1BB 7K. Song got the save with 1 IP of hitless pitching. Castro got 2 hits and Sogard got on base 2 of 4 times (2BBs.)

Woo is up 8-3 in game 2, as Gasper has homered twice and K Campbell with a solo blast. Gasper is at 1.461, now! Capra is 2 for 2 and at 1.391. Delay 1-2 and at 1.397. The game is in teh 5th inning.

 

[mvp 78]

 

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

 

You were spot on. soxprospects.com slotted Paez right behind Bastardo at #22.

[moonslav59]

Farm OPS Leaders (15+ PAs)

1.371 Gasper

1.333 Capra

1.324 Delay

1.319 Cespedes

1.257 Sogard

1.048 Gonzales

1.040 Cheng

.910 Romero

.742 Eaton

.695 White

.620 K Campbell

.611 Ward (3 SBs)

.598 Thaiss

___________________

OPS Against (3+ IP)

.100 Foutch & T Guerrero

.182 Kelly

.250 Dylan Brown

.297 Futrell

.337 Bennett (0.00 ERA in 8 IP, second most IP on farm)

.343 Uberstine

.400 Bickerstaff

.410 Holobetz

.436 Webb

.494 Seth Martinez

.571 Vogatsky

.583 Song & Olds

.671 Sweet

.689 Tolle (10 IP is the farm leader)

.700 Sena

.702 Valera

.748 Samaniego

.750 Eyanson

.846 Sansone

.889 Anderson

1.038 Witherspoon

 

[moonslav59]

It looks like soxprospects.com bounced #58 Patton from the top 60 to slot Paez #22. 

Adding Bastardo #21 and Paez #22 further unbalances the pitcher vs everyday player make up of the rankings.

Pitcher rankings: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 (7 of top 10)

13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22 (13 of top 22)

24, 25, 26, 29, 31 (18 of top 31)

33, 36, 38, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49 (26 of 49)

55, 57, 58, 59, 60 (31 out of 60 looks balanced, but...)

[mvp 78]

46 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

You were spot on. soxprospects.com slotted Paez right behind Bastardo at #22.

No inside information, just a hunch. Figured that they were slightly higher on Bastardo as his stuff ticked up this spring and Paez looked more or less the same. Paez still has a starter profile and is probably a higher ceiling than Mullins (at least in how they view it currently). 

[moonslav59]

On 4/6/2026 at 9:06 AM, mvp 78 said:

No inside information, just a hunch. Figured that they were slightly higher on Bastardo as his stuff ticked up this spring and Paez looked more or less the same. Paez still has a starter profile and is probably a higher ceiling than Mullins (at least in how they view it currently). 

Mullins has stuck around 22-23, but when you factor in that the rankings lost 7 players to trades above him (4 Perales, 6 Garcia, 8 Clarke, 10 Fajardo, 12 Sandlin, 18 Drohan and 20 Travieso) and saw bigger drops by Bleis and Cespedes, who were above Mullins for most of 2025, his drop from 22 to 24 is pretty significant.

The guy is 26 and still in AA, so I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but he keeps putting up very nice numbers.

[mvp 78]

36 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Mullins has stuck around 22-23, but when you factor in that the rankings lost 7 players to trades above him (4 Perales, 6 Garcia, 8 Clarke, 10 Fajardo, 12 Sandlin, 18 Drohan and 20 Travieso) and saw bigger drops by Bleis and Cespedes, who were above Mullins for most of 2025, his drop from 22 to 24 is pretty significant.

The guy is 26 and still in AA, so I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but he keeps putting up very nice numbers.

He's putting up nice numbers because he's old for the level, I guess. 

[mvp 78]

Mullins is starting for POR tonight.

[moonslav59]

34 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

He's putting up nice numbers because he's old for the level, I guess. 

Why is he not with WOO?

[mvp 78]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Why is he not with WOO?

Let him find success as a starter and then promote him? IDK. I guess they are using kid gloves due to his injury risk.

[Old Red]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Mullins is starting for POR tonight.

Home opener for the Sea Dogs today, but it’s snowing in Portland at the moment.

[mvp 78]

 

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Is Bastardo beginning with WOO?

[moonslav59]

Team Records

6-2 Woo (2nd in East Division)

1-1 POR

0-3 GRE

2-1 SAL

FCL begins in early May

[mvp 78]

Mullins: 1.2 IP, 5 ER