7/5 Gameday Thread: FCL Red Sox Going for the Gold

Brandon Walter promoted to Greenville (via salem Twitter)

FCL Scores
www.milb.com/gulf-coast/scores

Winkleman going for a second time.

Once Lawler gets there it will be better.

But yes, disappointing so far. Freddy was 1/2 today and SSS OPS above 890.
My gut, without any facts, is that with the rookie leagues combined, a lot of older players are now in the FCL, so our 18 YO DSL players are overmatched.

I think you also have to attribute a lot of this to the pandemic as well. The last time Brainer Bonaci, for example, played a professional baseball game was 2019 in the DSL. That’s a long time ago and a totally different type of ball game. We don’t know exactly what these guys were doing in the meantime, especially the international crew. There’s bound to be a lot of rust to shake off.

Yes, that part will be interesting.

That age is just the hitters, I think, right? The pitcher ages are 21.0 this year and 20.3 in 2019. But I'm actually stunned those numbers have only gone up that much with the loss of Short-Season. I'm admittedly not sure about other organizations, but looking at the Red Sox, they have a number of guys who are either repeating the level or legit were in Lowell all or most of 2019 (Flores, J. Diaz, Lucas, Suero, Larez). That they are still somehow only middle-of-the-pack in age for the league is baffling to me, but I note it's still early and only guys who've played are counting, which makes sense given the roster rules (the Nats' pitching staff's 23.3 average age appears to be skewed heavily by the rehabbing, 35yo Javy Guerra).