Right here’s the place MLB ranks the highest Crimson Sox prospects

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MLB Pipeline has launched their 2023 midseason farm system rankings. Here is the place the Crimson Sox land on them.

The Boston Crimson Sox look like arrange effectively for the long run, at the very least based on the specialists.

MLB Pipeline up to date their farm system rankings on Tuesday, and positioned the Crimson Sox group at sixteenth. The Crimson Sox stay on the identical placement as their throughout MLB’s 2023 preseason replace, though their prospect pool order has modified since then.

On the high of the Crimson Sox’ farm system sits Double-A Portland shortstop Marcelo Mayer, who MLB Pipeline has because the eleventh greatest prospect in baseball. Mayer has held the primary spot because the starting of 2022, however a model new face has emerged simply behind him: Excessive-A Greenville outfielder Roman Anthony. The Crimson Sox drafted Anthony within the second spherical of the 2022 MLB Draft, and he’s at the moment within the midst of a breakout season that has made him the thirty seventh greatest prospect in baseball. 

Triple-A Worcester outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela (No. 3 within the Crimson Sox’ system) and recently-drafted Greenville catcher Kyle Teel (No. 4) made MLB’s up to date High 100 prospects listing at No. 77 and No. 95 respectively, with Single-A Salem outfielder Miguel Bleis and Portland outfielder Nick Yorke rating simply outdoors. With these rankings, it’s onerous to not discover a sample.

“Hitters dominate Boston’s system,” wrote MLB.com’s Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra, and Jonathan Mayo, “with Mayer, Anthony, Rafaela and Teel on the High 100 and outfielder Miguel Bleis and second baseman Nick Yorke falling simply brief.”

Teel, one in every of MLB Pipeline’s High 100 prospects, was the Crimson Sox’ first-round choose within the 2023 MLB Draft. He tore up the Florida Advanced League and nearly instantly turned the primary Crimson Sox high choose since Dustin Pedroia to be promoted straight to Greenville, the place he’s at the moment dominating. However he’s not the one Crimson Sox draft choose who’s earned MLB.com’s consideration this 12 months. Second-round choose Nazzan Zanetello and third-round choose Antonio Anderson, each of whom are infielders within the Florida Advanced League, have been named because the eighth and 14th greatest prospects within the Crimson Sox’ system respectively.

Whereas the Crimson Sox are growing unbelievable hitters, they’ve much less success with their pitchers. The best-rated pitcher within the system is Greenville righty Luis Perales, who MLB ranks tenth in Boston’s system. This could possibly be a motive as to why the Crimson Sox should not any greater on this listing, however MLB Pipeline nonetheless offers a few of the group’s pitchers their flowers and credit the Crimson Sox for locating them.

“[The Red Sox are] as skinny as any group when it comes to pitching expertise,” MLB Pipeline’s authors wrote, “Although the worldwide scouting division has helped by discovering right-handers Wikelman Gonzalez, Luis Perales and Angel Bastardo.”

Many of those prospects nonetheless have loads of time earlier than they’re requested to maneuver to Boston, giving them ample alternative to develop and probably assist the Crimson Sox rise in these rankings within the close to future.