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Post by Addam603 on Apr 7, 2021 15:36:03 GMT -5
The minor league seasons start (hopefully) in less than 4 weeks and we haven’t heard a peep from Minor League Camp. I’m assuming most, if not all, of the beat guys left Fort Meyers with the major league team. With the complex being closed to fans, can we expect to hear anything from Minor League Camp?
Also, are all of the guys even there yet? I know they’re supposed to be reporting in waves starting on the 2nd but there hasn’t been a solid schedule. Is that going to be enough to get these guys ramped up?
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Post by sittingstill on Apr 7, 2021 16:20:38 GMT -5
This may not mean anything, and it's pure speculation, but while Portland has made an announcement about ticket sales, I haven't seen anything from Greenville or Salem. I wonder if they are preparing for the possibility that the AA guys report first and have a normal-duration spring training but the lower levels get pushed back a week or two. I would think it's also possible that games in the minors start with spring-training-esque rules about shorter games or rolling innings.
ETA: I know it feels like it's been forever, but it's still only 2021.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 7, 2021 16:31:36 GMT -5
Guys are still reporting. The intake process takes time - it's not even clear they're starting workouts yet.
As I said on the podcast, I tried to see if they'd let me come down (2nd shot on 4/20, so I could've scooted down after) but sounds like no media. We'll try to get reports from scouts.
I'm working on getting a roster, but VTSox and I are tracking who's reported based on socials, so that list so far (which isn't necessarily complete - just who's there based on their IG):
Jeremy Wu-Yelland
Chase Shugart
Zach Bryant
Yusniel Padron-Artiles
Jose Espada
Enmanuel De Jesus
Brock Bell
Juan Daniel Encarnacion
Brainer Bonaci
Brendan Cellucci
Bradley Blalock
Brayan Bello
Johan Mieses
Joan Martinez
Oddanier Mosqueda
Derel Belen
Christian Koss
Nathanael Cruz
Jose Adames
Ceddanne Rafaela
Merfy Andrew-Marmolejos
Rob Kwiatkowski
Jordan DiValerio
Cuba Bess
Joey Stock
Blaze Jordan
Cameron Cannon
Nick Northcut
Graham Hoffman
Wilkelman Gonzalez
Jose Garcia
Felix Cepeda
Bryan Gonzalez
Roldani Baldwin
Bryan Mata
Jacinto Arredondo
Joey Meneses
Jonathan Diaz
Antoni Flores
Kutter Crawford
Wil Dalton
Only names of note who appear to have reported to the DR Academy who might have come stateside are Luis Perales and Juan Chacon. But again, none of this is official - it might be that some GCL guys aren't set to come stateside until some full-season guys are gone (although that the likes of Cruz ARE there makes me curious what the deal is with Perales).
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Post by stevedillard on Apr 12, 2021 8:19:21 GMT -5
Is there further guidance on the minor league seasons? I believe from my last google search, that the non-rookie leagues are still at May 4th. I ask because if we are scouting the Royals and Mets for potential rookie league players to be named later, will that season be starting in June, as in the past?
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 12, 2021 9:00:49 GMT -5
Nothing yet on complex leagues. I think they're still figuring all that out.
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Post by bcsox on Apr 12, 2021 11:13:30 GMT -5
there was a report from soemwhere, not sure if it was on here, or I got it on the radio, but there were rumors of the RS minor leaguers playing the Mets minor leaguers informally this past weekend. Did anyone else hear anything about that?
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 12, 2021 11:27:16 GMT -5
there was a report from soemwhere, not sure if it was on here, or I got it on the radio, but there were rumors of the RS minor leaguers playing the Mets minor leaguers informally this past weekend. Did anyone else hear anything about that? I believe the alt site played the Mets alt site this past weekend in Brooklyn (they were definitely there in Brooklyn per the Worcester Red Sox's socials). Haven't seen anything reported on how those scrimmages went. They're slated to have scrimmages in Worcester this weekend. |
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Apr 13, 2021 5:16:59 GMT -5
Baseball hasn’t started until we see a minor league game day thread!
#affiliates
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Post by James Dunne on Apr 13, 2021 8:06:39 GMT -5
Baseball hasn’t started until we see a minor league game day thread! #affiliates This is the correct take. |
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Post by costpet on Apr 13, 2021 8:20:45 GMT -5
Minor league box scores. Ummm
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 13, 2021 8:21:32 GMT -5
We are exactly three weeks away.
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Post by James Dunne on Apr 13, 2021 9:20:22 GMT -5
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Post by Coreno on Apr 13, 2021 11:15:47 GMT -5
Does working from home count?
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 16, 2021 14:15:32 GMT -5
Looks like the first minor league spring training games took place today.
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Post by Soxfansince1971 on Apr 16, 2021 22:15:25 GMT -5
Looks like the first minor league spring training games took place today. Is there anywhere we can see the results |
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 19, 2021 9:05:30 GMT -5
Logan Browning and Nixson Munoz have retired in the past week or so. Munoz in particular was surprising given that he was the club's 2019 Latin Program Pitcher of the Year and pitched pretty well in his native Nicaragua this winter. As for Browning, he pitched well in Greenville in 2019 but never had stuff that would've played in the high minors. Always struck me as kind of a weird cat too.
Best of luck to both.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 22, 2021 12:21:40 GMT -5
In addition to Browning and Munoz, the Red Sox made the following cuts yesterday:
Caleb Ramsey
Yoelvis Guedez
Kevin Biondic
Reed Harrington
Richardson Jimenez
Hunter Haworth
Jagger Rusconi.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 23, 2021 12:49:23 GMT -5
Add Kervin Suarez and Everlouis Lozada to the list of cuts.
Of note, Ramsey, Guedez, Harrington, Jimenez, Suarez, and Lozada were missing from the milb spring training roster, so those appear to be more announcing cuts that had been decided previously (or were in the making pending health in camp, I guess) than new cuts based on how guys have looked. Biondic, Haworth, and Rusconi were in camp.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 23, 2021 14:22:48 GMT -5
Peak rankings of the recent cuts:
Lozada: 26, May 2018
Suarez: 28, May 2018
Guedez: 44, November 2019
Rusconi: 54, July 2015
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Post by cdj on Apr 23, 2021 14:31:43 GMT -5
Suarez and Lozada seem like they are intertwined forever for some reason
JAGGER NOOOOO
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Post by jl1947 on Apr 23, 2021 23:44:36 GMT -5
Suarez and Lozada seem like they are intertwined forever for some reason JAGGER NOOOOO Never quite understood the love for Rusconi. |
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 24, 2021 8:28:13 GMT -5
Suarez and Lozada seem like they are intertwined forever for some reason My first reaction as well. Kind of crazy how that worked. I believe Mata and Joan Martinez are the last two standing in this distemper at least from that class, which was the one from which MLB removed 5 players including Simon Muzziotti, who'd probably be a top 20 guy in this system. They also traded Gregory Santos and Yeison Coca from that class. Never quite understood the love for Rusconi. Had a real aggressive style of play and showed some promise early, but the style of play was part of why he couldn't stay healthy. |
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Post by jimoh on Apr 25, 2021 9:32:17 GMT -5
Suarez and Lozada seem like they are intertwined forever for some reason My first reaction as well. Kind of crazy how that worked. I believe Mata and Joan Martinez are the last two standing in this distemper at least from that class, which was the one from which MLB removed 5 players including Simon Muzziotti, who'd probably be a top 20 guy in this system. They also traded Gregory Santos and Yeison Coca from that class. Never quite understood the love for Rusconi. Had a real aggressive style of play and showed some promise early, but the style of play was part of why he couldn't stay healthy. Joe Doyle mailbag: "Which prospect over the last 10 years you thought was a sure thing, but severely disappointed" "Love this question. This is an industry to check your ego at the door. I was a pretty big believer in the arm talent and frame of Riley Pint, [...] Elsewhere, I really liked Victor Roache in 2012, Eric Jagielo in 2013, Trey Supak in 2014, Jagger Rusconi in 2015 and Blake Rutherford in 2016. Can’t win em’ all." www.prospectslive.com/mlb-draft/2021/4/21/ceiling-for-brady-house-sal-frelick-power-will-hs-arms-go-top-10-hagen-smith-five-no-hitters-mailbag |
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Post by jl1947 on Apr 25, 2021 15:49:38 GMT -5
I remember that the Sox amateur scouts loved him, I believe because he was a kid thought to have great makeup and to potentially play above his tools. His tools, however, were not that great, he had no power and only average speed.
I thought him mostly as a kid you might draft with the idea of hoping to sign underslot and then spread some of that money elsewhere. But, his commitment to USC made that a low probability play.
Had he been able to stay in the middle of the infield, and begun to create more contact, I could see staying hopeful. He never demonstrated the ability to walk or steal, so his value would have had to be sustained by a high batting average and outstanding defense as a middle infielder.
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The Sox obviously loved him more than the industry and picked him 50 to 160 slots higher than the industry view -- not that that is necessarily wildly predictive, see Yorke to a great degree, and Correa, to a lesser degree, etc. -- but, nonetheless, this has been a head scratcher to me.
I know that we all love to root for the underdog who leaves it all on the field, but that was the extent of my view of him. Best of luck to him, as he strikes me as a young man who does not need baseball to achieve success in life!
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 26, 2021 21:03:50 GMT -5
BA transactions has Casey Sutherland as released as well.
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