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2018 Minor League Rosters
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Post by dawnbringr on Jul 4, 2018 19:01:28 GMT -5
The Red Sox signed outfielder Kyle Wren to a minor league deal, MassLive.com’s Chris Cotillo reports (Twitter link). Wren is the son of Frank Wren, the former Orioles and Braves general manager and the current Red Sox senior VP of player personnel. The younger Wren was an eighth-round pick for Atlanta in the 2013 draft (when his father was still the GM) and was dealt to the Brewers after the 2014 season. The 27-year-old Wren has posted solid numbers over his pro career, hitting .295/.364/.384 over 2546 PA in the minors, though the Brewers still released him last week. In other Boston minor league news, the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox announced (via Twitter) that outfielder Ramon Flores has been released. The Sox acquired Flores from the Diamondbacks back in March, and he struggled to a .215/.299/.308 slash line over 223 PA for the PawSox this season. These numbers are a far cry from Flores’ previously-solid career performance at the Triple-A level, and even counting this year, he still owns an .802 career OPS over 1402 PA at the highest minor league level. A longtime member of the Yankees’ farm system, Flores has appeared in 119 games in the majors with the Angels, Brewers, and Yankees, with the large majority (104 games and 289 PA) coming with Milwaukee in 2016. www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/07/minor-mlb-transactions-7418.html
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Post by jimoh on Jul 4, 2018 20:14:49 GMT -5
The Red Sox signed outfielder Kyle Wren to a minor league deal, MassLive.com’s Chris Cotillo reports (Twitter link). Wren is the son of Frank Wren, the former Orioles and Braves general manager and the current Red Sox senior VP of player personnel. The younger Wren was an eighth-round pick for Atlanta in the 2013 draft (when his father was still the GM) and was dealt to the Brewers after the 2014 season. The 27-year-old Wren has posted solid numbers over his pro career, hitting .295/.364/.384 over 2546 PA in the minors, though the Brewers still released him last week. In other Boston minor league news, the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox announced (via Twitter) that outfielder Ramon Flores has been released. The Sox acquired Flores from the Diamondbacks back in March, and he struggled to a .215/.299/.308 slash line over 223 PA for the PawSox this season. These numbers are a far cry from Flores’ previously-solid career performance at the Triple-A level, and even counting this year, he still owns an .802 career OPS over 1402 PA at the highest minor league level. A longtime member of the Yankees’ farm system, Flores has appeared in 119 games in the majors with the Angels, Brewers, and Yankees, with the large majority (104 games and 289 PA) coming with Milwaukee in 2016. This is cut and pasted from www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/07/minor-mlb-transactions-7418.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook , right? Should not that be acknowledged?
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Post by dawnbringr on Jul 5, 2018 8:36:03 GMT -5
Sorry... my "cut and paste" ended too soon....
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Post by borisman on Jul 5, 2018 8:44:34 GMT -5
Kylo Wren! Shouldn't he be playing for the Yankees?
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Post by jmei on Jul 5, 2018 8:54:10 GMT -5
I merged the separate Kyle Wren thread into this one.
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Post by Addam603 on Jul 20, 2018 12:07:55 GMT -5
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Post by James Dunne on Jul 20, 2018 13:45:07 GMT -5
And to follow up on that:
So he's hurt, and this signing is basically for next year. Which means there's something specific they like about him, rather than him just being a depth/placefiller. That doesn't mean he'll be good of course, or that he's fixable, but that's at least interesting.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jul 20, 2018 15:38:39 GMT -5
Fernando Rodriguez 2.0. We'll see if they get anything more from Montgomery.
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Post by mckeonam on Jul 22, 2018 14:59:30 GMT -5
The PawSox are finishing up their 98th game as we speak, and that means they are closing in on the end of Jake Romanski's 100 game suspension. Can we expect one of Dan Butler, Mike Ohlman and Oscar Hernandez to get dealt? Even with Ohlman playing some first base, it just doesn't make sense to carry four catchers.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jul 22, 2018 17:15:03 GMT -5
The PawSox are finishing up their 98th game as we speak, and that means they are closing in on the end of Jake Romanski's 100 game suspension. Can we expect one of Dan Butler, Mike Ohlman and Oscar Hernandez to get dealt? Even with Ohlman playing some first base, it just doesn't make sense to carry four catchers. If they did, it'd be for cash or something. You're probably right about carrying 4 not making sense.
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Post by James Dunne on Jul 23, 2018 8:25:23 GMT -5
Seems highly possible to me that the odd man out is going to be the guy who has gotten himself suspended both of the last two years, had a .546 OPS at Double-A last year, and is already 27.
One of the key components to the guys who make a career being a backup/up-and-down catcher is their reliability.
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Post by Addam603 on Jul 23, 2018 8:42:48 GMT -5
Seems highly possible to me that the odd man out is going to be the guy who has gotten himself suspended both of the last two years, had a .546 OPS at Double-A last year, and is already 27. One of the key components to the guys who make a career being a backup/up-and-down catcher is their reliability. The .546 OPS was a 30 game sample. A small sample of his own creation, but still a small sample. In 2016, he had a .751 OPS and hit .308 over 90 games. You’re absolutely right about the reliability though. Butler’s familiarity with the AAA pitchers, Hernandez’s defense, and Ohlman’s hitting could definitely make Romanski expendable. Can’t even really send Romanski down to Portland either though because Nunez and Rei need the reps.
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Post by bluechip on Jul 26, 2018 15:26:53 GMT -5
So Kyle Martin is headed to Japan. Always put up decent minor league numbers.
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Post by James Dunne on Jul 30, 2018 8:13:10 GMT -5
Is it just me or has it been an extremely slow year for promotions in the minors? Not that anyone is forcing the team's hand, but of our top 20 prospects a somewhat reasonable argument could be made to promote Houck, Shawaryn, Ockimey, Dalbec, Chatam, Feltman, Lakins, and Buttery. Some roster movement would breath some excitement/optimism to what's been a bit of a slow year in general. Yeah, that's the crux of it. The team doesn't promote based on rank in the team's top-20 list, they promote when a player has forced it with both performance. If anything, the aggressive promotion schedules that Bogaerts, Bradley, Betts, Benintendi, Margot, and Devers forced over the past five years has kind of skewed the perception of a normal promotion schedule - it was easy to take for granted having at least two top-100 prospects hitting the hell out of the ball and playing so well that it demanded a move. All of those guys you mentioned have had good seasons but hardly flawless ones, and with all of them (except maybe Feltman) it's pretty easy to pinpoint the reasons they'd want a player at the level they're currently at. Houck's still incorporating a new repertoire (and was having a pretty tough adjustment until he worked the four-seam back in), Dalbec is working on cutting down the strikeouts (he's on pace for like 160), Chatham started the year in Greenville and has been very good but not really dominant - he's more of a guy with a broad range of skills. Lakins is coming off a long-term injury and just moved to a traditional short-relief role about eight weeks ago.
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Post by controne on Jul 31, 2018 14:09:57 GMT -5
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Post by soxfanatic on Aug 16, 2018 1:15:20 GMT -5
Red Sox signed LHP Alex Demchak out of the Can-Am League. He is assigned to Lowell.
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Post by James Dunne on Aug 23, 2018 7:50:14 GMT -5
This isn't really an organizational move so much as an observation about the roster formation, and there was really not another thread it made sense in. I just was kind of going through doing a general once-over of the system, and it struck me how much of a mistake it was to skip Kervin Suarez and Everlouis Lozada over Lowell to Greenville, both for their development and their potential trade value. Both are 19 and had decent (but not incredible) years with the GCL last year, and both have been totally over-matched in the SAL. Especially since both are guys who are not physically advanced - both are skinny, and Lozada in particular just seems tiny. Suarez has over 50% more strikeouts than hits, and Lozada has a .064 Iso. Very possible that either or both will get back on track, or that they might have gone this direction if they'd been handled more conservatively. But neither struck me as the type of players to be aggressive with at the time, and you certainly can't argue that it worked.
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Post by costpet on Aug 23, 2018 8:29:29 GMT -5
Is this the last year for Trey Ball?
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