@BenBadler
Boston Red Sox sign RHP Wuilliams Rodríguez from Venezuela
@BenBadler
Boston Red Sox sign RHP Wuilliams Rodríguez from Venezuela
Originally Posted by moonslav59
A listing of projected signings:
https://www.soxprospects.com/international.htm
Is he better than the top 2-3 we had signed before him?
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Ask harmony. Ben Badler's tweet may be a misspelling or he may share the same name as the prospect in the Mariners system.
https://www.milb.com/player/wuilliams-rodriguez-805777
A lot of these kids agree to terms with teams when they're 13-14 before they officially sign and are taking off of showcases. The scouting is messy, it's not the like the MLB draft. The fluidity between the #1 ranked guy and the #30th ranked guy in the IFA class is ten times messier than in the mlb player draft.
I get that, but I do feel better knowing we got more well-regarded IFSs than most other teams.
We've done pretty well, recently, after dipping a little bit and suffering through the penalties we incurred under Ben's regime.
2004: Doubront
2005: Y Navarro
2006: Dice-K, Okajima
2007: Roman Mendez
2008: Tazawa, W Cuevas
2009: Bogaerts, Montas, Iggy
2010: J Aro
2011: Margot, T-W Lin
2012: Basabe, J Guerra, G Bautista
2013: Devers, DHern
2014: Moncada, Espinoza, R Castillo, Ed Bazardo
2015: B Mata
2016: H Velazquez (Penalty Phase)
2017: Bello, Rafaela, E Quiroz, G Jimenez
2018: Wikelman, Paulino, Bonaci, J Encarnacion, A Bastardo, M Mejicano
2019: L Perales, J Salazar, J Garcia, J Chacon
2021: Bleis, J Paez, L Ravelo, Sawamura, E Polanco, A Mejias
2022: F De Leon, F Encarnacion, J Garcia
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Eddie Romero has definitely done a good job.
@BeyondtheMnstr
The Red Sox have FIVE of the 2023 Top 100 Prospects according to Baseball America.
Marcel Mayer No. 10
Triston Casas No. 29
Ceddanne Rafaela No. 71
Masataka Yoshida No. 87
Miguel Bleis No. 88
Last year:
Mayer 15
Casas 19
Yorke 31
Duran 91
Classing Yoshida as a prospect is questionable, I guess.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
They listed Dice-K as a prospects, way back when, too.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Doesn't seem right. Yoshida is 29 and costing us $105 mill.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Rusney Castillo cost us over $70M and Moncada's fee and 100% tax cost us a ton, too, but they were both younger than Yoshida and Dice-K.
I get why they consider them "prospects," and they did not play MLB, so that's why they call them that.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Yeah, not a big deal one way or the other.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
It just further reinforces the idea that Bloom is a great farm builder!
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
BA has a long history of considering Japanese free agents as prospects. They also put 31yo Kosuke Fukudome on their list at one point…
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