Casas finishes 3rd for ROY, Yoshida 6th.

Bosoxman2004

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I thought I read somewhere that the top 3 in each league gets their team draft compensation?

Edit: I see it was supposed to be for the International Draft that was never agreed upon, thanks!
 
Sandy Leon Trotsky

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I know it's impossible to project but if Yoshida didn't have that late season collapse, I wonder where he would have ended up in the voting. Similarly, if Casas hit his mid May stride right out of the gates. I don't know much about the seasons the other RotY contestants had so I'm sure they had similar poor stretches too that if leveled out would end up in similar places.
But there's plenty of reason to expect a improvement in consistency from Casas, maybe a little less so from Yoshida due to age but I'm still bullish on him. He has an advanced professional approach and strategy at the plate. His defense I expect to improve. I don't think like others here that Bloom left the Sox in a mess, and in fact he provided what is just two starting pitchers without any other moves from being a 90-92 win team. They have the capital and the farm system to address those deficiencies too. I'm optimistic.
 
The Gray Eagle

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Speier in the Glob on Casas:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/13/sports/triston-casas-wasnt-rookie-year-he-looks-like-huge-part-red-sox-future/

He believes he will only get better.

“I’m not close at all,” Casas said late in the season of how close he was to being the player he envisions becoming. “I feel like I take a lot of pitches that I should be hitting. I feel like I check-swing at a lot of pitches that shouldn’t even merit a flinch. I feel like there’s a whole other level that I could tap into, but I’m not really there right now for whatever reason. I’m trying to figure it out.”
Already, the cerebral Casas has demonstrated an atypical gift for problem-solving in the batter’s box and deciphering how opposing pitchers are attacking him. Often, rookies will see their performance slip — and sometimes crumble — in the second half of the season. The physical wear of the first full year in the big leagues, coupled with the adjustments of opposing pitchers to exploit deficiencies, can result in a sputter toward the finish line.
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Superstar potential?
“He started settling in a little bit, learning,” said Sox assistant hitting coach Ben Rosenthal. “He took that and then you go to the second half, and all these little things that he’d been putting together were just building blocks to see what he can do. There’s still more room.
“He’s got the ceiling; we’re seeing it. I don’t think he’s a guy that’s going to be comfortable. His personality and how he goes about things, I think he wants to go and be elite, to be a superstar. I think he wants it. I think he’s on the right track. There’s still more room to grow.”
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He learned from his early season struggles:

He struggled at the beginning of the year while taking too passive an approach, hitting just .133/.283/.293 in April. But in retrospect, he wasn’t drowning in that initial stretch, just treading water while figuring out how to swim.
Casas steadily improved over the first half, then exploded with a jaw-dropping performance after the All-Star break. He hit .317/.417/.617 with 15 homers in 54 games in the second half, putting him in the middle of a who’s who of the best hitters in baseball — just behind Ronald Acuña Jr., and slightly ahead of Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Yordan Alvarez — for the top performances after the All-Star break.
To put up such numbers at any career stage is impressive. That Casas did so as a 23-year-old rookie was historic. His 1.034 OPS in the second half was the eighth-highest mark by a rookie.
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His approach to his young teammates is really encouraging to read about:
Mindful of his advanced thoughts about hitting, Sox players and coaches encouraged him to assume an increasingly vocal role in pregame hitters meetings. Casas also took it upon himself to connect with prospects such as Wilyer Abreu and Enmanuel Valdez to help them in their acclimation to the big leagues.
Such outreach underscores the great distance Casas traveled in the course of a year. As a September callup in 2022, he navigated veteran expectations uncertainly — and sometimes drew eye rolls from teammates for quirky pregame routines such as sunbathing shirtless in the outfield. But by this September, his performance and commitment to routines had earned the respect of both older and younger peers.
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Fishy1

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The Gray Eagle said:
Speier in the Glob on Casas:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/13/sports/triston-casas-wasnt-rookie-year-he-looks-like-huge-part-red-sox-future/

He believes he will only get better.



Superstar potential?


He learned from his early season struggles:



His approach to his young teammates is really encouraging to read about:
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Hope he's a good influence on Valdez and Abreu. Both those guys posted really high BB rates with the automatic strike zone in AAA, and saw them plummet in the bigs (the delta between Valdez's AAA BB rate and MLB BB rate this year is crazy). I think if both of those guys learn to trust their eyes they'll be much more comfortable as big league hitters.
 
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