Waiting for Godot: The Official 2013 Prospect thread

[papipapsmanny]

oh man Middlebrooks and Hassan For Teheran lol, would love to get that guy

[AI]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...tnerId=rss_bos

Lavarnway gets no respect, he rakes every year yet nothing.

[SirHizz]

"While Lavarnway's power has always been his calling card, he's turned himself into a decent backstop as well"

If they think that he has already turned into a decent backstop, I have no idea why he's only at #8 on the list. His stick is outstanding for a catcher and if they ecpect him to sty there, he should compete with Montero for #1.

But I don't care at all what the rankings and experts say, Ryan will go his way and sometimes it's better to be an underdog. It would be a bad thing if our FO considered him a trading-chip, but Lavs is here to stay.

Edit: Can someone tell me why there was never any hype surrounding Alex Hassan? His stats look decent and you gotta live his OBP/BB skills. Is it basically out of the question that he becomes a regular on the Sox?

[Green_Monster]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...tnerId=rss_bos

Lavarnway gets no respect, he rakes every year yet nothing.

Yup, I've said this before. Other than a few years in age, Lav is almost/just as good as Montero. He just doesn't have NY hype on his side.

"While Lavarnway's power has always been his calling card, he's turned himself into a decent backstop as well"

If they think that he has already turned into a decent backstop, I have no idea why he's only at #8 on the list. His stick is outstanding for a catcher and if they ecpect him to sty there, he should compete with Montero for #1.

But I don't care at all what the rankings and experts say, Ryan will go his way and sometimes it's better to be an underdog. It would be a bad thing if our FO considered him a trading-chip, but Lavs is here to stay.

Edit: Can someone tell me why there was never any hype surrounding Alex Hassan? His stats look decent and you gotta live his OBP/BB skills. Is it basically out of the question that he becomes a regular on the Sox?

Jeremy Hazelbaker is another nice OF'ers who flies under the rader.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=hazelb001jer

[MmmRocks]

Edit: Can someone tell me why there was never any hype surrounding Alex Hassan? His stats look decent and you gotta live his OBP/BB skills. Is it basically out of the question that he becomes a regular on the Sox?

I'm not saying these are logical reasons, but he was unheralded when he was drafted and he has an ugly swing. I love his approach at the plate though.

[avrpatsfan]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...tnerId=rss_bos

Lavarnway gets no respect, he rakes every year yet nothing.

Lol at a guy whose career OPS is .675 being ranked over Lavarnway. And a guy who has played for 1 year (and wasn't even as good as Lavarnway has been in his career). And Wilin Rosario who had a .741 OPS last year in the minors and a below .700 OPS in the MLB. Outside of Sanchez, Montero, and that Blue Jays guy he's better than those guys. Whatever, when he starts raking they'll shut up.

[AI]

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/prospects/watch/y2012/#list=2b

How the hell is Tejeda ranked #4 among 2B prospects yet Coyle doesn't even make the list?

[MmmRocks]

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/prospects/watch/y2012/#list=2b

How the hell is Tejeda ranked #4 among 2B prospects yet Coyle doesn't even make the list?

Yeah... that list is garbage.

[-Lavigne43-]

Mayo is horrible at his job

[Station 13]

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2012/...ects#storyjump

look where the MFY fall to.

[SirHizz]

Finally someone who doesn't buy into the endless hyping-machine named "Yankees-farm". Really, I think most of their guys are dramatically overrated, just a year ago Yanks fans were claiming that Brackman was a top-prospect and complete off-limits in any trade except Felix Hernandez.

Whom I really like is Manny Banuelos, but even he has still a long way to go. Betances could make it as well, but again, he's kinda overrated at the moment. Sanchez is a very nice prospect as well, but after that?
But hey, every farm would take a huge hit after trading/graduating its best prospect, we've faced the same problem after giving up guys like Kelly and Rizzo.

Right now, I think both farms are pretty even. Yanks probably have better prospects at the top, #1-#2, but I like our depth better. To be honest, both teams barely outside top 10 is probably right.

[MmmRocks]

Yankees fans are going to go ape ****. There's one in particular I can think of an a Red Sox board I frequent who has been trolling about how terrible our farm system is. Every time we're rumored to be working on a trade for someone he talks about how we don't have the trade chips to acquire anyone. Yet, he thinks the Yankees have future major league players at 7 positions in their minors.

I can't wait to see his new sig.

[AI]

Chris Hatfield
@SPChrisHatfield
Can't share specific list, but got John Sickels' Top 50 Hitters and Pitchers in email today. 3 #RedSox hitters, 1 pitcher listed. Guesses?

Looks like we'll have 4 of our own make MiLB's Top 100. I'm guessing Barnes, Bogaerts, Lavarnway and one of Middlebrooks/Cecchini/Brentz are on the list.

[MmmRocks]

Looks like we'll have 4 of our own make MiLB's Top 100. I'm guessing Barnes, Bogaerts, Lavarnway and one of Middlebrooks/Cecchini/Brentz are on the list.

Looks about right. My guess would be Middlebrooks, Bogaerts and Lavarnway with Ranaudo as the pitcher.

I could also see Barnes, Jaocbs or Swihart being one of the players.

[MoVaughnsLunch]

I think those guesses are about right. I can't wait to see where our farm ranks in a year's time. I bet we move into the top ten