Brock Beauchamp

Signing 16-year-olds and turning them into productive MLB pitchers is, unsurprisingly, a war of attrition. https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/brewers-minor-league/international-free-agent-pitching-part-one-a-league-of-failure-r3285/

1. Create Your Blog When you click the Blogs section on the top menu, you'll be taken to a list of most the most recent entries from our community. At the top of this feed you'll see the "Create a Blog" button. Click it and you'll be asked to enter a few high-level details: the title of your blog within the site (i.e., "John's Red Sox Blog" or something more clever/creative), a brief description, and the category it will belong to (if you're not sure, just pick "General"). To hop on over to the blog index page now, click here. 2. Publish Your First Entry Congrats, you have a blog! Now give people a reason to come check it out. On your blog page, you'll see a red button on the right-hand side, "Add Blog Entry." Click it to draft your content. Here you can either compose within the CMS, or copy-and-paste what you've written elsewhere (Word, Google Doc, notes app, etc.). You'll also be prompted to choose a category for your post (select "Use an existing entry category" and pick the one that fits best, or create a new one). You can either publish immediately or schedule it to go live in the future. 3. Support Your Position with Stats We now support copying and pasting Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs stat tables directly into the site! Just pop on over to this blog and find out how to do it! 4. Tips to Make Your Blog Look Great First, upload an image! Just below the blog entry area, you will see a Featured Photo bar. Grab a photo and drag it into that space, which will upload the image, feature it, and make it more likely your blog will be noticed (and commented on). 5. Promote and Keep Blogging Talk Sox has a naturally built-in audience of passionate Sox fans, so your content will likely get some views on its own. But spread the word! Tell your friends to check it out and share it on your social media profiles. Keep writing regularly to hone your skills and grow your readership. Those who post consistently high-quality content in the blogs often get the opportunity to move up to the (paid) front page.

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Help us build our first top 20 prospect list of the 2025 season! Unlike other publications, Talk Sox allows all users to help build our top prospect rankings. Anyone with a Talk Sox account can participate and give their input on who you think should be in the Red Sox's top prospects list. Before you vote, you can hit our top prospects page for the latest stats and news on Red Sox prospects while on the voting page, every name is a clickable link that brings up their current stat card. Voting is simple, just follow the instructions below! Here's the rundown how to participate: 1. You must have an account and be logged in to vote. If you don't have an account, click here. It literally requires 60 seconds to create an account. 2. Review our current top 20 prospect list, catch up on stats, rankings, etc. (you can do so from the voting page link below) 3. Have your prospect list in your filthy little paws? Then flip on over to the new prospect voting page (after reading the rest of this, please). https://talksox.com/prospect-voting 4. Voting is super simple, you drag and drop players in the order you wish them to be. After you move a prospect, the list automatically renumbers so you don't lose track of the order. This works on mobile devices but it's a *vastly* better experience on desktop. Sorry, that's just how this kind of thing works. There's no great way to make something like this be as awesome on a phone screen. 5. Each prospect has a comment section where you can add any commentary you have on that player. At the bottom of the list, there is a general comment section to explain over-arching things you wish to mention. 6. Don't see a prospect you want to put on the list? Just pop back here and give me a mention (in a comment, start typing @Brock Beauchamp or @Brandon Glick as it appears). Mention the prospect you want added and I will do that asap. 7. Once you're done with all of it, click Save. You've now voted! 8. When the voting closes, a new thread will automatically generate in this forum with all of your rankings and comments for everyone to read and talk about. 9. You can only vote once. If you have voted in error, pop back here and tag Brock, asking to have your vote deleted. It will be removed and you can vote again. View full article

Welcome to the first voting session of 2025! I haven't taken the time to remove players who are no longer in the organization or have lost prospect status so if you see one of these players, please notify me in this thread! Here's the rundown how to participate: 1. You must have an account and be logged in to vote. If you don't have an account, click here. It literally requires 60 seconds to create an account. 2. Review our current top 20 prospect list, catch up on stats, rankings, etc. (you can do so from the voting page link below) 3. Have your prospect list in your dirty little paws? Then flip on over to the new prospect voting page (after reading the rest of this, please). https://talksox.com/prospect-voting 4. Voting is super simple, you drag and drop players in the order you wish them to be. After you move a prospect, the list automatically renumbers so you don't lose track of the order. This works on mobile devices but it's a *vastly* better experience on desktop. Sorry, that's just how this kind of thing works. There's no great way to make something like this be as awesome on a phone screen. 5. Each prospect has a comment section where you can add any commentary you have on that player. At the bottom of the list, there is a general comment section to explain over-arching things you wish to mention. 6. Don't see a prospect you want to put on the list? Just pop back here and give me a mention (in a comment, start typing @Brock Beauchamp or @Brandon Glick as it appears). Mention the prospect you want added and I will do that asap. 7. Once you're done with all of it, click Save. You've now voted! 8. When the voting closes, a new thread will automatically generate in this forum with all of your rankings and comments for everyone to read and talk about. 9. You can only vote once. If you have voted in error, pop back here and tag Brock, asking to have your vote deleted. It will be removed and you can vote again. Voting will close at end of day Wednesday, April 30th!

Dave Henderson.

Not sure why this made me laugh so hard but it did.

Hah! I completely missed that when the images were sent over to me...

Lou Merloni!

Yep! We aren't striving for uniformity or having it done a certain way. Literally the only thing we care about is that it's up in the morning so we can schedule things around it.

To be clear, anybody can start a game thread. We appreciate if someone wants to take the time to do it, they just need to get it posted before Brandon or I pop over here to do it. Over on Brewer Fanatic, one user has decided he wants to start game threads most days so he just does it around 8am every day, which is before I get to the site to do it myself.

From a site management perspective, we lose. Consistency is a *huge* part of bringing in new users and giving us the ability to promote game threads across the site and/or social media.

Welcome to Talk Sox!

He's a low-floor, high-upside guy at this point. But a very intriguing player who has a legit shot to be very good.

Our Brewers minor-league writer is outstanding. Here's his write-up on Rodriguez: https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-top-prospect-rankings/yophery-rodriguez-r46/

Get up to speed on Yophery Rodriguez here: https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-top-prospect-rankings/yophery-rodriguez-r46/

Yep, it's the Greek God of Walks.

What's the weather delay look like in Boston?

They had the privilege of facing the Twins in April. It will make anybody look good.

As we gear up for another season of Red Sox baseball, it's time to look at the community members who made Talk Sox great over the winter. Hello, Red Sox fans! Twice a year, I sit down and find the most popular posts and blogs on Talk Sox and their creators receive prizes for their contributions to the newly-relaunched Talk Sox. After a wild Red Sox offseason, there was a lot to talk about. We look at the most popular posts and most popular blogs created by our users. Let's dive into the most popular content of the offseason. Most Popular Post It sure was an interesting offseason. At points throughout the winter, it felt like Triston Casas was a goner. In our most popular post of the offseason, @notin replied that the rumored deal for the Mariners' Luis Castillo fell through due to the Red Sox trying to unload the beleaguered Masataka Yoshida contract in the process. For this popular post, you win this cool box of 1988 Topps baseball cards! Congratulations and private message @Brock Beauchamp with your mailing address! Most Popular Post Runner-Up According to our internal metrics, the second-most popular post of the offseason was (unsurprisingly) about the Alex Bregman signing. @5GoldGlovesOF,75 pointed out that no matter how you feel about Bregman himself, seeing the Sox go out and lock down one of the most prized free agents of the offseason is a huge step in the right direction. Thank you for being such a valued member of the community and private message @Brock Beauchamp for your prize, which is this excellent Fenway Park brick set! Most Prolific Poster We like to hat-tip the community member who accrued the most reputation points over the winter. This offseason, that poster was @mvp 78! Sorry, there's no prize for this, just our undying gratitude (or something). But seriously, without posters deciding to call Talk Sox home every day of the year, none of this would exist. And we thank you for your contributions! Normally, there is another category but due to the newness of the relaunched Talk Sox, no one has utilized the feature yet! So if you have something long-form to say about the Boston Red Sox, write it up in a blog post, which is free and accessible to all Talk Sox members! I'd like to take a moment to thank all of the existing community members for being such a welcoming presence as we transitioned to new ownership and a new platform. I know it's difficult to see one of your favorite places change but you've all been gracious throughout the process, bumps and all. Thank you so much and here's to a successful Red Sox season! View full article