Red Sox Prospect Watch: Pedro Castellanos finding his power

The Boston Red Sox have a lot of fun prospects – Pedro Castellanos just kicked his ranking up a notch by finding his power stroke.

MLB has updated their prospect rankings and the Boston Red Sox top-30 prospects have seen quite a shakeup. This includes adding their new draft picks and a bunch of players moving up and down.

It’s likely there will be a lot more movement as well as players like Darwinzon Hernandez could graduate from prospect status soon enough.

With the way Hernandez has been pitching – you’d expect him to get more and more playing time. The young lefty has been fantastic out of the bullpen. In 7 1/3 innings as a reliever, he’s yet to allow an earned run.

That’s not the only way the prospect list could change though. It’s trade season! Boston needs relief pitching more than anything, but could make any number of trades. If they go for a high-end reliever, they’ll definitely need to part ways with at least one high-ranked prospect.

Due to that, we could see a few players near the top not in the minors anymore – we’ll also get some new additions to the list (always fun). For now, though, there’s nothing we can do but wait. It’s a little frustrating because by the time you’re reading this – some of the players being talked about might have been moved.

Let’s focus on the positive though.

Along with Hernandez, Michael Chavis is enjoying success at the Major League level. He’s back up to a .260 average and has 16 home runs and 55 RBI to go along with it. There’s some speculation that he could be on the move – but that would be weird as he’s played a big role in the offense this year.

Sam Travis is finding his swing. The first baseman is up to .241 and has looked really good recently. He’s had at least one hit and one RBI in each of his last four starts. Two of those games had a homer and his last start was a three-hit game.