A preview of all the Red Sox pitching prospects who will be playing in this year’s Arizona Fall League whose season starts this week.
Each October with the playoffs in full swing, the top prospects in Major League Baseball gather in the Arizona Fall League for six weeks for game experience and to showcase their talents. Since 1992, the AFL has served as a tool for gaining more reps to improve a player’s development, informing decisions on player retention, and as a venue for displaying potential trade chips for offseason deals. Each team sends a handful of players (seven in the Red Sox case) to one of the six league teams. This year the Red Sox are playing for the Surprise Saguaros as they did last season.
Since there are seven players going to the AFL this season, splitting them into hitters and pitchers seems wise to present an article that doesn’t have so many slides you are not going to take the time to go through it. For today’s article, we are going to focus on the pitchers for this year’s AFL contingent; Trey Ball, Jalen Beeks, Jamie Callahan and Michael Kopech. You will get a rundown of the scouting (based on soxprospects.com reports) on each player as well as where he came from and where he might be going.
It might not be too long before these guys are household names in the baseball world. Former AFL MVPs Nolan Arenado (2011) and Kris Bryant (2013) are among the favorites for this season’s National League MVP. Closer to home, late season Red Sox lefty specialist Robby Scott was an AFL Fall Star last season.
Let’s get started.