A kid who looks no more than a day older than 18 is currently the top prospect in the Red Sox farm system, and one of the top, if not the top, pitching prospect in Major League Baseball. That kid is the 22-year old Clay Buchholz, who’s pitching repertoire and mental make-up all point to […]
Just another day in the Red Sox minor league system last night. With the big club off for the evening, leave it to Gabe Kapler’s boys in Greenville to throw up some zeros and for George Kottaras to take home ESPN Sportcenter’s top play of the day.
Down in Greenville highly touted prospect from last year’s […]
The Red Sox 2007 draft is over and forty-seven picks have been made. Of those, 68% were high school players marking a four year low in the mix of college to high school prospects chosen by the Red Sox.
“I think we felt the strength of this Draft was generally in the high school class,” […]
Kevin Goldstein from Baseball Prospectus’ “Future Shock” has this to say about Red Sox CF prospect Jacoby Ellsbury:
“Ellsbury was pegged as a mid-first-round pick going into the 2005 draft, but while there were no perceptions of high bonus demands, he somehow dropped into the Red Sox’ collective laps with the 23rd overall pick. Go back […]