Red Sox have the #9 farm system according to Baseball America

[ookami7m]

Additionally - per the push notice the MLB app threw at me, Mayer hit his first pro HR today.

 

[Heating up in the bullpen]

FanGraphs updated their Top 100. They have Mayer and Casas at 16 & 17, Nick Yorke at 75, and Jet Downs at 80.

https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2021-in-season-prospect-list/summary?sort=-1,1&pageitems=100&pg=0

 

[scottyno]

FanGraphs updated their Top 100. They have Mayer and Casas at 16 & 17, Nick Yorke at 75, and Jet Downs at 80.

https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2021-in-season-prospect-list/summary?sort=-1,1&pageitems=100&pg=0

Duran would also be somewhere between 50 and 100, but he "graduated" by getting a bunch of time up in Boston

 

[brandonchristensen]

Insane that Mayer is that high. Is anyone else from the draft as high as him?

 

[Pedroia's Itchy Nose]

The AL East is pretty incredible:

• collectively +181 in run differential (at the time I'm writing this -- 2nd in baseball behind NL West at +225, next best after that is AL West at -50)
• Total FV of $1.343B (NL Central: $1.131B, NL West: $1.090B, AL Central: $.970B, NL East: $.829B, AL West: $.740B

The NL West gets all of the press for being the superdivison, but the AL East is awfully close while also having the best collective farm by a margin. There's a really good chance that the AL East is ultra competitive for much of the decade.

 

[Pedroia's Itchy Nose]

Insane that Mayer is that high. Is anyone else from the draft as high as him?

Henry Davis is #27 and shares a 55 FV rating, so roughly comparable.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

Insane that Mayer is that high. Is anyone else from the draft as high as him?

No. It has the sign year on the table. Davis is 27th and Leiter 32nd.

 

[scottyno]

Unless I'm missing someone Mayer and Casas are the Sox first FG top 25 prospects since before 2017 when Moncada was #1 AB was #2 Kopech was #21 and Devers was #22