Happy 15 Years to SoxProspects

I'd be curious to hear stories about how people found the site for the first time. Especially if it was way back in the 2003-2005 range.

I remember creating the entire Red Sox minor league roster in an old PS2 baseball game in the early 2000's and that's how I found SoxProspects.com. Done it almost every since too lol. Now the site is an irreplaceable resource for my business as I have to scout for the best players to buy game used gear from and who to set up signings with. Happy to support the Podcast, and look forward to hopefully being more involved in the future! Thanks for everything guys!

Known about the site for probably 10+ years, and really started visiting all the time in 2012 during the sad Bobby V year. The content and discussions about prospects was a much needed distraction from those down years for the MLB team!

Cheers Mike and co. and thanks for all you do!

My first SP memory was trying to figure out who would be better, Michael Bowden or Clay Buchholz.

I went with Bowden, oops

Was MVP 2005 for me, although I had Gamecube. I learned when tweeting about it recently that a lot of people found the site that way.

Jeremy West was a BALLER in my system by the way.

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IRL, I remember having played against Kyle Jackson. Pretty sure the at-bat lasted three pitches. I'll let you guess the outcome.

I think Theo Epstein really got me interested in the site back in 2004 or 2005. The whole Pedrioa draft got me hooked. I remember Theo just gushing over the Pedrioa pic and I just got fascinated and wanted to find out why. That's when I came here and kept coming back. He made the understanding of building strong farm systems and building a higher payroll was more essential than to just have a high payroll and 3 or 4 star players like back in the 1990's.

I didn't know about the forum until like about 5 or 6 years ago. Lurked for 2 or 3 years and then posted heavily from that point on lol.

Edit- The MVP franchise was the best of all time in baseball video games. The pitch recognition system was awesome. MLB the Show is unique and cool, but it doesn't come close imo. In fact, I can't hit in the Show because it doesn't have a pitch recognition system. I only pitch in that game, it's way simpler.

While I virtually never post, I found the site sometime around 2006 or so - can't recall how.... Perhaps via Peter Gammons, or Sons of Sam Horn.... I recall when Pete Hissey was drafted by the sox, I think I posted when it was reported he'd signed (perhaps my last post prior to this one) - he was semi-local (other side of suburban Philadelphia), and a kid I'd heard nothing about prior to the draft - alas, he never panned out, but for years now this site has been one of the first 3 or so sites I visit each am - if I can find the game day threads painful to read (part of my morning), I appreciate, mostly, the passion...... Thanks to all!

I found the site over a decade ago when I was a lurker on SoSH. Someone mentioned "Over at Soxprospects" in a post and I switched my preferred Red Sox site almost immediately. Proud to support the podcast, and can't thank you all enough for the amazing work.

Here's a nice Top Ten from April 7, 2006.

When I grew up by reading sports newspaper from long time ago before the computer ever exists and I asked my Dad what is prospect when the Red Sox organization traded their MLB player(s) for other team prospect name(s). My Dad knew about Pawtucket as Triple AAA team since he grew up in this city! I knew nothing about minor leagues system since it was lack of information from the Boston sports newspapers before 1990. The term "prospects" is all I keep hearing from until I got my own computer. Jeff Bagwell is most famous prospect player to give away for Larry Anderson. I'm still pissing off.

I decided to type the term "Red Sox prospects" as search from computer for curious and found this Soxprospects.com by scrolling down the lists and opened it. Thanks, Mike for create this wonderful site. I see the whole minor league teams under the Red Sox and their prospect players. It helps as any Red Sox fan for news.

Thats an insane top 10 no matter how you slice it. 7 out of 10 guys with careers w/ 10.0 WAR or more (4 w/ 20.0+)....and 2 of the 3 without 10.0 WAR (Delcarmen & Moss) still made positive contributions to the game.