Mid-Season Top Ten Prospects

[bigpapi349]

Sox Future Team

SP
1.Papelbon
2.Lester
3.Anibal Sanchez
4.Michael Rozier
5.Dave Pauley
(Matt Goodson)

Relief-
1.abe alvarez
2.cla meredith
3.Ryan Philips
Long--Jose Vaquedano

Setup-
1.Delcarmen

Closer-
1.Hansen

C. Shoppach
1B. Lowrie? (2B maybe convert to 1st)
2B. Pedroia
3B. Youkilis
SS. Hanley
LF. Soto
CF. Ellsbury
RF. Moss
DH. Alex Machado?
BN- Christian Lara, Jeremy West, Chris Durbin, David Murphy, Andrew Pinckney

[CrespoBlows]

Originally Posted by Boogie

There are other guys who we have. You are underrating some of our prospects. Those are our top tier, but we have some other teenagers down low who are outstanding. Tyler Clippard is around 20 and has been dominant this year, Jon Poterson has been destroying NY-Penn League pitching at the age of 19, and Marcos Vechionacci has too much talent to be ignored, especially since he is still just a teenager. Plus if you guys count Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie, and Craig Hansen as legit prospects, then Carl Henry and J. Brent Cox have to be included.

Tyler Clippard is in A ball right now, while he is a prospect, he isn't a great one. He lives on locating his fastball, which is in the 90-92 mph range, while it's a good pitch it's not a great one. His secondary stuff is just OK, Clippard could be a servicable back of the rotation starter, he isn't close to ace potential

Jon Poterson has some good power potential, but lacks plate discipline. Right now he's Mark Bellhorn, he needs to get more power, or become more disciplined, when he does that I will say he is a good prospect.

You won't believe, you'll call me biased, but J.Brent Cox, could be very good, (I love his slider) but his mechanics just put up a big mother fucking red flag. He needs to fix those, or he is just an injury prone pitcher.

Carl Henry isn't near as polished as the Sox draft picks, which is why I ranked them ahead of Henry.

[CrespoBlows]

Originally Posted by bigpapi349

Sox Future Team

SP
1.Papelbon
2.Lester
3.Anibal Sanchez
4.Michael Rozier
5.Dave Pauley
(Matt Goodson)

Relief-
1.abe alvarez
2.cla meredith
3.Ryan Philips
Long--Jose Vaquedano

Setup-
1.Delcarmen

Closer-
1.Hansen

C. Shoppach
1B. Lowrie? (2B maybe convert to 1st)
2B. Pedroia
3B. Youkilis
SS. Hanley
LF. Soto
CF. Ellsbury
RF. Moss
DH. Alex Machado?
BN- Christian Lara, Jeremy West, Chris Durbin, David Murphy, Andrew Pinckney

Flip Egan at 1st, then put Lowrie at DH.

[bigpapi349]

ya forgot about egan

[stevece80]

Originally Posted by bigpapi349

Sox Future Team
C. Shoppach
1B. Lowrie? (2B maybe convert to 1st)
2B. Pedroia
3B. Youkilis
SS. Hanley
LF. Soto
CF. Ellsbury
RF. Moss
DH. Alex Machado?
BN- Christian Lara, Jeremy West, Chris Durbin, David Murphy, Andrew Pinckney

That team would hit 70 home runs. 35 of which would be by Shoppach. Shoppach won't be in the system long enough to be the starting catcher.

[CrespoBlows]

Originally Posted by HumungousErection

That team would hit 70 home runs. 35 of which would be by Shoppach. Shoppach won't be in the system long enough to be the starting catcher.

I'm guessing if Soto reaches his max potential, (highly unlikely) but he could hit 25+, he has the best natural swing in the system.

Lowrie could hit 15-20 HR's, key word is could.

[stevece80]

I agree on Soto, but I don't see half of those players being major league regulars. That's not pessimism, that's absolutely realism. I've never seen Moss as someone who projects to hit more than 20 a year. A lot of those guys have little power, and most project as 15-20 guys, if they reach their peaks. I'm just saying I see one real power bat out of them, and that's Shoppach.

[CrespoBlows]

Originally Posted by HumungousErection

I agree on Soto, but I don't see half of those players being major league regulars. That's not pessimism, that's absolutely realism. I've never seen Moss as someone who projects to hit more than 20 a year. A lot of those guys have little power, and most project as 15-20 guys, if they reach their peaks. I'm just saying I see one real power bat out of them, and that's Shoppach.

You're correct, the only players I see being regulars are Pedoria, Shoppach (elsewhere), Ellsbury (to early to tell), and Youkilis. Which ones did you think?

[stevece80]

Papelbon
Lester
Anibal Sanchez
meredith
Delcarmen
Hansen
Shoppach
Pedroia
Youkilis
Hanley
Ellsbury

These who I see as big league regulars. Not saying the others won't, just who I think will right now. Alvarez will, but not with the Red Sox. I also don't think all of these players will necessarily be all with the Sox, but I see them all being at least average players in the league.

I'd commit suicide if Alejandro Machado were DHing for the Red Sox. I mean, seriously?