https://blogs.fangraphs.com/boston-red-sox-top-46-prospects-2023/
It seems to be tacking a short-term projection onto a longer-term view of the system. I think where that view may theoretically be lacking is that if you can backfill the roster with some of these cheap talented guys soon, it allows more leeway to be financially aggressive elsewhere, which is closer to the LAD method and probably would Chaim would like to do.
The whole piece seemed weirdly negative for it to conclude that it’s a top-ten system. Maybe it’s just the nature of the beast, but the blurbs on Mayer and Yorke in particular both seem focused on what they still need to work on. The Yoshida blurb is amusing in an “I’m not owned!” kind of way, though.
Yeah, it's a really interesting example of hitting profile over actual results in terms of really good contact rates, plate discipline & exit velocity & not worrying that he hit .228 or whatever.
Love that he's listed at 5' 9'' - which means he's what, 5' 7 1/2'' - and batting cleanup
Yeah, I feel like we hear this sort of stuff a lot, but guys with those contact rates and that plate discipline are always getting ragged on for their athleticism or whatever and then just keep hitting and keep getting on base. I mean, he's already in AA -- there's good pitchers throwing lots of strikes in AA.
The guy this conversation is making me think of is Derrik Gibson, one of my Adopt-a-Prospect guys once upon a time. He was a smaller guy IIRC, lean and wiry, 2nd round pick, and had a .400 OBP as a teenager in Lowell with little pop.
And Ryan Fitzgerald with a couple of bombs himself - #'s 9 and 10. He's having a great year and now closing in on an OPS of 1.0. At 28, I really hope he gets a taste of the show. Sad when guys like him come so close but never quite make it.
I don't remember a Red Sox player that young hitting a ball that far. Teenagers just don't do that.
An interesting comp, and encouraging in a perverse way. Whereas Meidroth isn't know for his pop, he does have a little. Gibson was the definition of a noodlebat, OTOH. He didn't post an ISO over .090, even in a partial season, until he was 24 years old in AAA... and then he didn't do that again until he was 27 years old in Colorado. He was out of baseball the next year. He hit three homeruns in his first 1500 at-bats in the minors. THREE! Meidroth has 10 homeruns in his first 300 PA in the minors, an OBP of .450, and a SLG% of .500. Meidroth is striking out about as much as Devers did at the same levels, but walking twice as much.
I think it's probably the nature of the beast. After all, Mayer is roughly top 10 now (based on FG's preseason top 100 minus the graduates) and he has plenty of flaws to correct, according to this review. They even labeled Elly de la Cruz a supernova-level-boom OR BUST... so yeah, just keeping it real. I found it all super informative.
Yeah I feel mostly the same way. It's partially because I followed his every move during SoSH's Adopt days but Gibson is always a guy I think about when someone is walking a ton in the minors. It's easy to say "he will develop more power as he gets stronger" but in reality you're just praying that kind of guy can max out at like Diet Brett Gardner.
I looked forward to his recaps every night.
Yeah, doesn't look particularly fast, but who knows?
If Jackie Bradley Jr. stole a lot of bags and also played SS, that to me would be a really useful player. Maybe not a star, but a guy who can help win games in a lot of ways. That's what I'm hoping for Ceddanne.
There's no hurry, the important thing is helping him be the best he can be in the majors one day. This guy is really fun to watch, so hopefully it works out for him.
He had terrible numbers as a starter, but maybe he can be the left-handed Winckowski soon. Though it's good to remember that Winckowski had to take his lumps as a rookie in the majors last year before helping us this year.
It's actually Yoelquis I think, but yeah pretty much... in AA this year he has a .197 BA but .325 OBP.
