2024 PROMOTIONS (& demotions) Thread

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04/12/24 RHP Trennor O'Donnell assigned to Salem Red Sox from FCL Red Sox.
04/12/24 Greenville Drive activated LHP Zach Fogell.
04/12/24 LHP Zach Fogell assigned to Greenville Drive from Salem Red Sox.
04/12/24 Portland Sea Dogs activated OF Nick Decker.
04/12/24 2B Tyler McDonough assigned to Worcester Red Sox from Portland Sea Dogs.


Some early promotions...

TMac promoted to Worcester to fill the void left by everyone in Boston getting injured.

Decker activated from Dev list to replace him.

Fogell promoted to Greenville after a couple strong outtings.

O'Donnell replaces Fogell in Salem.
 
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Alex Hoppe coming off the IL & in what I'm taking as a corresponding move, Cody Scroggins was promoted to Worcester.

Scroggins is a low-leverage arm who missed most of last season. He is already 27 & not really a high value prospect.

He pitched 2 scoreless innings in his 1 game for Portland this season, allowing 2 hits, no strikeouts or walks.

04/16/24 Portland Sea Dogs activated RHP Alex Hoppe from the 7-day injured list.
04/16/24 RHP Cody Scroggins assigned to Worcester Red Sox from Portland Sea Dogs.
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As an irrational Fraymi stan, him replacing Pierre on Salem's roster makes me very happy:

04/16/24 SS Fraymi De Leon assigned to Salem Red Sox from FCL Red Sox.
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However, they made it pretty clear from his usage, mostly batting 9th in the FCL last year, they don't view him as a priority prospect. Hoping he changes that soon.

The 19 y/o had a 111 wRC+ in the FCL last year over 72 PAs. He played 2B, SS, 3B, CF & LF.

Salem also activated RHP CJ Weins, last year's way-underslot 6th round pick ($50k on a $320k slot).

View: https://twitter.com/BeyondtheMnstr/status/1780295648798998961
 
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View: https://twitter.com/ByAndrewParker/status/1780701104659198274


Joe Jacques has a 15.75 ERA in 4 IP for Worcester this year... but hopefully he's more of an MLB pitcher?

On the bright side umm... more Heineman in Worcester?

04/17/24Worcester Red Sox activated C Tyler Heineman from the temporarily inactive list.
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Red Sox appear to have hit a critical mass of injuries already & it's only mid-April. If things continue on this trajectory, I hope they have enough healthy players to sell off & give me some more fun people to talk about in the system.
 
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04/20/24 2B Kelvin Diaz assigned to Salem Red Sox from FCL Red Sox.
04/20/24 RHP Max Carlson assigned to Greenville Drive from Salem Red Sox.
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Max Carlson being promoted to Greenville to help with their pitcher shortage.

Kelvin Diaz, speedy OF who played in the FCL last year, heading to Salem. He is 21 & put up a 100 wRC+ last year with 21 streals in 25 attempts.

Not sure if Jhostynxon is injured, but he did come out of yesterday's game & isn't in the lineup today, so could be another reason to add OF depth.

They still would have Bleis, Yuten, Taylor & Tucker, but no harm adding Diaz.
 
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04/23/24 SS Freili Encarnacion assigned to Salem Red Sox from FCL Red Sox.
04/23/24 RHP Max Carlson assigned to Salem Red Sox from Greenville Drive.
04/23/24 Salem Red Sox activated SS Daniel McElveny from the 7-day injured list.
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Freili is heading to Salem & Daniel McElveny (who is actually a catcher) is too.

Not sure if these are fortification for some banged up Garcia brothers.

Max Carlson also headed back to Salem after 1 outting. Hopefully Greenville's pitching is getting healthy.
 
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1 H and O R with 10 Knin 9 Worcester innings….but also, 8 walks. Feels like he’s up mostly because the other options aren’t great (Gutierrez or Uwasawa?) but hopefully he makes the most of the opportunity. Never know when it might be the last one.
 
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Petagine in a Bottle said:
1 H and O R with 10 Knin 9 Worcester innings….but also, 8 walks. Feels like he’s up mostly because the other options aren’t great (Gutierrez or Uwasawa?) but hopefully he makes the most of the opportunity. Never know when it might be the last one.
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Yeah, I'm guessing they'll bring up Uwasawa when they need a starter. The stuff has been pretty nasty, though, & he was coming off injury so there could be some rust in those walks.

Gutierrez has only pitched 1 inning since we acquired him & he walked 3 guys in that inning. He'll need some time.
 
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JM3 said:
Yeah, I'm guessing they'll bring up Uwasawa when they need a starter. The stuff has been pretty nasty, though, & he was coming off injury so there could be some rust in those walks.

Gutierrez has only pitched 1 inning since we acquired him & he walked 3 guys in that inning. He'll need some time.
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Makes sense. I guess the silver lining here is the big league club is getting looks at a lot of different guys, for better or worse.
 
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Petagine in a Bottle said:
Makes sense. I guess the silver lining here is the big league club is getting looks at a lot of different guys, for better or worse.
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Yeah...I mean at some point you just have to lol about it & hope to continue moving forward in a positive direction toward '25.
 
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Robert Kwiatkowski promoted to Worcester to fill the vacancy opened by Uwasawa's promotion.

Stanley Tucker activated from Salem's IL, Kelvin Diaz sent back to FCL (season begins May 4).
 
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amfox1 said:
Robert Kwiatkowski promoted to Worcester to fill the vacancy opened by Uwasawa's promotion.

Stanley Tucker activated from Salem's IL, Kelvin Diaz sent back to FCL (season begins May 4).
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Kwiat Assassin promotion makes sense. Joins other org filler like Karson Simas & Cody Scroggins there. Rough season for Worcester.

& Diaz back to FCL makes sense. He was only up due to Bleis, Jhostynxon & Tucker injuries, & the FCL Sox seem quite shorthanded in the OF.
 
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He's 25, so he should be at a higher level, but I thought they'd keep him at A+ a little longer since he only has 22.1 innings in Greenville.
 
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ZMart100 said:
He's 25, so he should be at a higher level, but I thought they'd keep him at A+ a little longer since he only has 22.1 innings in Greenville.
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They've been aggressive with some of those promotions early. Brand only had 11.2 innings in Greenville before going to Portland.
 
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Reguillo has been struggling in A-Ball & Steinbaugh in High-A.

05/02/24 RHP Denis Reguillo assigned to FCL Red Sox from Salem Red Sox.

05/02/24 RHP Conor Steinbaugh assigned to Salem Red Sox from Greenville Drive.
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FCL season starts Saturday, May 4th @ 10 a.m.
 
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I guess this is a demotion?

Cristian Nunez, who pitched 17.1 innings in the FCL (6.23 ERA) & 17 innings at Salem (5.29 ERA) last year was assigned to the FCL today:

05/03/24 RHP Cristian Nunez assigned to FCL Red Sox.
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Nunez hasn't pitched yet this year.
 
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ZMart100 said:
He's 25, so he should be at a higher level, but I thought they'd keep him at A+ a little longer since he only has 22.1 innings in Greenville.
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Apparently the Red Sox agree:

05/03/24 RHP Caleb Bolden assigned to Greenville Drive from Portland Sea Dogs.

05/03/24 RHP Cody Scroggins assigned to Portland Sea Dogs from Worcester Red Sox.
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Bolden did not pitch a game in Portland.

Scroggins pitched a couple in Worcester, but seemed more like an org-filler promotion than Bolden, which looked like it might be real.
 
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JM3 said:
Kwiat Assassin promotion makes sense. Joins other org filler like Karson Simas & Cody Scroggins there. Rough season for Worcester.

& Diaz back to FCL makes sense. He was only up due to Bleis, Jhostynxon & Tucker injuries, & the FCL Sox seem quite shorthanded in the OF.
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Despite crushing AAA like a grape (180 wRC+ in 17 PAs), Simas is headed back to Greenville.

View: https://twitter.com/tommycassell44/status/1786521589854482454


View: https://twitter.com/brendan_camp/status/1786496835764273466
 
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Pablo and Vladimir both made it through waivers and accepted assignments to Worcester.
 
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Brendan Cellucci back to Portland was the corresponding move:

05/07/24 RHP Ryan Zeferjahn assigned to Worcester Red Sox from Portland Sea Dogs.

05/07/24 LHP Brendan Cellucci assigned to Portland Sea Dogs from Worcester Red Sox.
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CT currently in need of some Dev time with his mechanics all out of whack.

He hasn't even Tweeted since 4/28:

View: https://twitter.com/christophtroye/status/1784758835976052755


05/08/24 Portland Sea Dogs transferred RHP Christopher Troye to the Development List.

05/08/24 RHP Robert Kwiatkowski assigned to Portland Sea Dogs from Worcester Red Sox.
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& The Kwiat Assassin makes his triumphant return to AA after 3 games & 6.1 scoreless innings for Worcester.
 
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Perales & Penrod are official.

05/26/24 RHP Luis Perales assigned to Portland Sea Dogs from Greenville Drive.

05/26/24 LHP Zach Penrod assigned to Worcester Red Sox from Portland Sea Dogs.
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Tyler Miller is headed to Portland.

View: https://twitter.com/brendan_camp/status/1795255707471876423


Makes sense. They've had a really shallow bench for a while & he fills a similar role to Blaze.

This is from May 14th

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There is a decent opening at 1B in Portland with only Binelas & Gasper really playing there with Blaze out, so that might mean a Tyler Miller promotion.
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& this is from the BCamp article:

Miller, 24, had been with Greenville since the start of the 2023 season. In his first 36 games this year, the left-handed hitter batted .275/.321/.450 with nine doubles, one triple, four home runs, 17 RBIs, 16 runs scored, nine walks, and 28 strikeouts over 140 plate appearances for the Drive. He slashed .313/.365/.552 against right-handed pitching and just .171/.194/.171 against lefties.

Among 78 qualified hitters in the South Atlantic League this season, Miller ranks 23rd in strikeout rate (20 percent) and OPS (.771), 17th in batting average and slugging percentage, 21st in isolated power (.176), 20th in line-drive rate (26 percent), 28th in swinging-strike rate (10.7 percent), and 30th in wRC+ (119), per FanGraphs.
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https://bloggingtheredsox.com/2024/05/27/red-sox-to-promote-infield-prospect-tyler-miller-to-double-a-portland/
 
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