Boston Red Sox Prospect Watch: No-hitters and home run streaks
By Hunter Noll
Red Sox Prospect Watch features a no-hitter and a home run streak
We’re only a month into the season. So it feels a little premature to claim the Boston Red Sox season is already over. They’ve given very few positives to this point though.
As always, we don’t focus on that here though. That’s the beauty of the Prospect Watch. Oh, the Red Sox are almost 10 games under .500? Well they had multiple prospects put up monster numbers this week, so that’s fun.
In the Majors, we did have a pretty big shakeup. With the way things are going, don’t be surprised if more come in the coming weeks. We saw Jarren Duran in the bigs again. This is massively deserved as he really seemed to fix his issues from last year and was getting on-base constantly in Triple-A.
He could have infused some much-needed life into the Boston lineup and is currently 1-for-4 with a triple, one HBP, and a run scored in the Majors this year. However, Duran has already been sent back down to the minors.
The left-handed hitter boasts an insane .371/.451/.597 slash line in Triple-A. He has four doubles, two triples, and two home runs. Meanwhile, Duran has 11 RBI and 15 runs to go along with eight steals in just nine attempts.
I get that it’s early and you can’t just blow up the roster after a month. But it feels like they should’ve found a way to keep Duran in Boston a little longer. We’ll see the outfielder again.
We might be seeing more top prospects getting their chance in the Majors at some point this year. It’s still very early into the season, but if Boston doesn’t start to turn things around soon-ish they might want to start evaluating talent and giving younger guys a look. So Duran probably won’t be the last of the call-ups.