Hugh2
-
Posts
4,264 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
7
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Hugh2
-
Exactly my point, people aren't being called up to the majors if teams don't think they're ready or very close to it. Doesn't mean guys aren't rushed either. It also doesn't mean that just because a guy has very little to learn in the minors that he's going to have instantaneous success in the majors. I'm very glad the Sox didn't give up on Duran, I was hopeful but I certainly stopped betting on him at the beginning of last year.
-
While I agree with the overall narrative, I certainly wouldn't want to fire a guy because he got one thing wrong. You can do everything rigth and end up wrong and vis versa. Can anyone name any of the other players scouted and recomeneded by Danny Watkins? FYI he is the agent who signed Mookie Betts. Was he good? or did he just get lucky??? I'd be willing to bet no one in here can name one without doint some research. Now again, I'm all for eliminating deadwood, trimming the fat, getting rid of under performers etc. etc. etc. As a matter of fact I've been one of the BIGGEST proponents of this over the last several years. But what I don't want to do is just indiscriminatenly eliminate people and there's value in continuity. Give me a surgical knife and not the machete
-
Before he was traded, this is how I was looking at it, I was hopeful he could stay healthy, optmistic but I certianly wasn't better on it. I hope he stays healthy all year, I hope Grissom puts it together and this trade ends up working out for both teams. Unless we meet the Braves in the world series in which case I hope Sale sucks.
-
Lots of prospects not getting called up when guys get injured too. How come Kavadas and Jordan aren't here? heck people wanted Mayer here last year before even wanting him here this year when Story went down. OBVIOUSLY injury starts the clock sooner for guys, and opens the door to opportunitey but largely guys get called up around the time they're ready. There's a reason why teams hoard depth at the back end of the 40 man, all teams do it. Looks bad when the Red Sox suck because they do a s*** job building up the top of the roster.
-
Honest question. Because I think theres nothing wrong with your prediction. But what made you think he would stay healthy this year for the Braves, when he was unable to stay healthy here for 1/2 a decade?
-
I also don't think we have a relevant sample size to really judge Sandlin, at least not by his stat line
-
Perales has been better than ok, his whif % on his pitches are elite, I forget the exact number but his change up was insane, it was above 60%. Ian Cundall talked about him on the last podcast and I believe he said he thinks he's going to be in some peoples top 100 lists this summer if he keeps it up. I think he's going to be the #1 pitching prospect in the system when the new rankings come out.
-
Wikelman has been dissapointing, but the Sox system as a whole has been very impressive this year. I think they will be in everyones top 10 mid season, and they may even be making some top 5's. The biggest knock on our system by those ranking us the lowest had been the lack of pitching talent and while I still think the pitching depth lacks in this system and isn't it's strength it has taken a noticable big step forward.
-
Well that's why I didn't put him in first Tier (Brannon), I think he's a long shot too BUT he was a top 100 draft prospect who was given a bonus that was $550K over slot, hasn't played a lot yet and just turned 20. If he can stick behind the plate and his hit tool develops he could be a top 100 prospect in all of the game, although I agree that not even getting to the high minors is a real possibility as well. And I was actually talking about Johanfran Garcia, who I'm pretty high on, but Jhostynxon is very intriguing as welll. It would be pretty cool if we could develop two MLBers who are brothers.
-
Out of all those names the only guys I'm really excited about are Bleis, and Cespedes. Although I bet someone from the Garcia, Zanetello, Campbell, Brannon, Castro pop. Some of these guys are going to bust, the ones closer to the majors trending down are very strong candidates to do so (Jordan/Yorke), others will be traded too. All the real exciting prospects are RHH, aside from Bleis and Cespedes who are the furthest away are LHH.
-
https://www.soxprospects.com/payroll.htm SOxprospects announces new partnership with Soxpayroll. New page is pretty awesome and looks like a great resource.
-
I never said otherwise either, rather I understood the point Max was trying to make that seems to elude Randy. Yes the correlation is real, but as been proven around here it's not as strong as some would make you think either.
-
Do you actually believe that's what he's saying? I took it as there's not as strong a correlation between spending money and success as people think. You can't just throw money at the best players available and expect to get better. The Mets are a prime example of that now. This doesn't mean how the Sox have spent their money isn't open to critque either.
-
Let’s just keep not trusting Jansen. It works
-
I predicted that double play. I don’t feel special. Why is cooper on this team?
-
This is true, I also think if the offense was a little bit better they could plug him 7-9th and just plug him in with no pressure.
-
Can we just appreciate the season Tanner Houck is having He leads the American League in WAR, he's 5th in innings pitched, 11th in K's. Get this.....HE'S THE ONLY GUY WHO HAS PITCHED A SHUT OUT THIS YEAR. That's right there's only been 4 complete game shut outs across baseball and 3 of them have been in the NL.
-
I'm not getting exciting about it, but just saying it might happen.
-
Correct, I was wrong. He needs to be added to the 26 man or DFA'd. So whether people like it or not the Sox may do just that to see what he does.......or he gets DFA'd.
-
He's was 21 and rushed to the bigs, of course they figured him out. This by no means guarantees he will ever figure it out but it's way too early to start judging him too. I think as fans we expect players to just come up and immediately be good. Progress is never linear, just look at how guys like Pedrioa, JBJ, and Duran broke into the bigs. Even a guy like Xander Bogaerts had a sophmore slump and took him over 600 ab's until he turned into the player he really was.
-
He could be pressing now, the good about him is his defense looks fine at 2nd base to me
-
in only 75 ab's though?!?!?! meanwhile he put up a .921 OPS last year and a .419 OBP in AAA about 400 at bats. He was only 22 last year, he was brought up and throw into a playoff race, I don't think we've seen the best of Grissom yet. I hope so at least.
-
I expect we will see something from him soon. As soon as his rehab assignment is over the Sox will have to either add him to the 40 man or DFA him.
-
What do you think he's juicing with Celery and Kale with some pinneapple?
-
Wait this actually happened? I suppose nothing is unbelievable today. Of course people are injury prone!!!! I do think it's worth noting that people can be injury prone for different reasons. We are all put together differently. Length of bones can vary, where muscles attach can vary. These things can effect someones flexibility and how certain motions put stress on tendons/ligaments etc etc etc. Also, poor training habits and muscular imbalances can be a leading cause to a lot of injuries as well. With the later..........we can do something about that. Even before the recent rash of injuries I've been advocating for the Sox to invest more into well qualified strength and conditioning coaches up and down the system.