September Rankings are live: www.soxprospects.com
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Notes
-Prospects 3-5 (Bleis, Rafaela, Teel) were the toughest calls towards the top that we've had in a long time. We're all in the same ballpark but not 100% aligned. We raised Rafaela's and Teel's projection grade to a 5, but decided to watch the games and review the data & reports for another month on those three prospects before making any other changes there.
-We struggled with ranking Noah Song - based on live scouting, current day Song might not make it to the top 60, but there is a chance 2019 Noah Song is still in there - that Song would be ranked pretty high. He's ranked at 60 for now. It will be an important off-season and will be fun to follow how he looks in the spring.
Graduates
Nick Robertson graduated
Debuts
Zack Penrod debuts at 49
Risers
Yoelin Cespedes up from 15 to 10
Wilyer Abreu up from 23 to 12
Corey Rosier up from 56 to 44
Brock Bell from unranked to 50
Felix Cepeda from unranked to 54
Fallers
Mike Romero from 10 to 18
Bryan Mata from 21 to 27
Cutter Coffey from 30 to 37
Freili Encarnacion from 49 to 56
Phillip Sikes from 46 to 57
Niko Kavadas from 42 to unranked
Christian Koss from 50 to unranked
CJ Liu from 51 to unranked
Note: please, for the love of god, keep in mind that just because a player moved a few spots in either direction it does not necessarily mean we think more or less of that player at the time of that given update compared to last month. New prospect can debuted in the rankings, some players graduate, other prospects can make big jumps around that player. It's all relative. Grades are important as well.
