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There’s just no way we’re that bad
I get what he’s saying, idk who the main pitching coaches are in our farm system but obviously they aren’t working out.
That is egregiously low. And dodgers 1? The orioles or dbacks should be 1
Kind of a weird placement by Law. Mayer is listed high. He’s bullish on Casas’ bat. He’s the highest out of any outlet on Rafaela and acknowledges Bleis has a super high ceiling.
Even if Mata, Walter and Murphy end up in the bullpen they have late inning stuff. Considering this team is paying Jensen, Martin and the ghost of Barnes past 30+ million this year there’s tremendous value in homegrown late inning relievers.
I agree that our pitching is lacking a bit (especially with Bello graduated), but it still seems like he arbitrarily picked 23rd for the farm when they’re definitely top 15 if you just look at talent and forget position.
Weird because the 17 year olds here on this sub tell me the farm system is awesome, this is always an argument in support of Bloom. Could it be that this GM is actually a joke?
Hmm. Shitty team, shitty farm system. Thanks Chaim!
BuT ChAiM fIxEd tHe FaRm sYsTeM
Really rebuilt that farm system, that boy genius!
The worst part is that people are going to take this ranking over the other major publications (Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, MLB Pipeline, Fangraphs) that have us either in or near the top 10 to say that our farm system sucks.
There’s really precious little top end, can’t miss, prospects on the farm. Assuming Casas and Bello stick all year is there anyone else projected to make an impact this year? The pitching stinks. Folks in this post hanging their hats on 3 guys who may be above average bullpen arms. That’s why its closer to 20 than 10.
WTF. Gimmie a break.
Terrible take. Other rankings have us either in top 10 or close to top 10. Our farm isn’t perfect but it’s getting better each year.
Hate to say I told you so. No sarcasm either. Actually hate it that many of us were right. I love this team and want them to win now and in the future. This wasn’t worth destroying the major league team and fan excitement over. They could have done similarly drafting because Mayer was a part of that dumpster 2020 season’s draft. Keith Law is very reputable so to disagree is fine, but to call him an idiot is hilariously rude. They have no power pitching.
People in this thread are so delusional. Mayer is a good prospect, yes. So is Casas. After that we have mostly C level lottery tickets and have absolutely no rotational prospects of any value beyond Bello, who was up and down at best last year in the MLB. Why we would be higher when we only have 3 players that we can confidently say will be major leaguers, one of them is YEARS away (Mayer) and one of them looks like a mid-rotation guy at best? Does this ranking mean the Sox have no good prospects? No, it means 22 other teams have deeper prospect pools.
Law is an idiot. Dude is always down on the Sox.
> #23. Boston Red Sox
>Their group of position-player prospects is probably in the upper half of farm systems, but their group of pitching prospects is one of the weakest. They might not have a future MLB starter anywhere on their full-season rosters; the best of those candidates all have huge reliever risk, at least. They lost one guy from their top-100 group last year, as Nick Yorke, their shocking first-round pick in 2020, hit just .232/.302/.365 in High A. He’ll turn 21 in April, though, and has time to recover.
Bad team and bad farm team? Good thing we’re rich.
Thanks Bloom!
I would have thought in the middle. Decent AA team but most of the talent is still in the lower minors. Casas will go off the list.
How the hell do the Dodgers always have such a good farm system.
It all comes down to pitching with the Red Sox ranking. Not one prospect list has a single Red Sox pitcher on their list. Also doesn’t help Yorke fell off most lists. I think 23 is probably fair but as the article says our position group is easily upper half.
It’s almost as if ownership and Bloom’s “preparation for the future,” is a bald face lie?! 😝
Well if it matters at all, the Yankees just have one top 100 pitching prospect and he’s projected to be a bullpen arm, obviously we need to develop pitching but for the Red Sox and Yankees for the last few decades it’s been free agent pitchers or trades
Not surprising, the Red Sox have had the worst time developing pitching. I think you can name on one hand the number of frontline starters they’ve developed since Clemens.
The Athletic is trash. You could have ready better stuff on a blog 20 years ago. It only exists to create hot takes that get people talking. There’s no journalism being done. The point of this list isn’t to genuinely rank farm systems but to drive engagement and get it shared far and wide to get advertisers.
Geee look at that. The Dodgers who took on franchise killer Mookie Betts and compete for a title EVERY YEAR while developing players and going after big money players are still No.1…and the smarter than everyone in the room Bloom Sox are in the bottom half of the bottom half. You would think that they would be no. 1 based on Jesus Christ(Marcelo) alone…
This franchise is the biggest pile of shit in pro sports…
Bello is a future ace, I’m sure of it. He’s got the tools and swagger.
Mata is probably better suited in the bullpen unless he can hone in his wild side.
Beyond those two, very weak pitcher prospects throughout the system.
Casas and Mayer are probably future MLB regulars and possibly all stars. Lugo and Yorke are also probably future regulars and Rafaela’s defense probably assures him a career.
Really hoping Bleis and Blaze continue to take steps forward.
Can’t ask for much more than that
I actually agree with the ranking. We have a few hitters in the top 100, but the pitching talent is pretty much non existent, and so is positional depth.
lol “cHaIm iS rEbUiLdInG tHe fArM sYsTeM”