Boston Red Sox Prospects: Candidates for early season promotions
By Hunter Noll
Which Red Sox prospects are candidates for early season promotions?
The Boston Red Sox 2022 season might not be off to the hottest start. However, they have had a lot of success when it comes to the play of a lot of their most intriguing prospects. Now that we’re more than a month into the season, we can stop worrying about something simply being a “hot start”.
Now we can start wondering who might be a candidate for an early-season promotion. This is a tricky one though, because you don’t want to promote someone before they are ready. It’s usually better to play it safe when it comes to prospects. Struggling because they weren’t ready at a level is only going to do more harm than having them stay in a level too low for an extra few weeks.
And yes, I will sit here and complain every week when I feel like someone deserves to get promoted. I’m also an idiot though who definitely doesn’t know more than the people working in the Boston organization.
In fact, we’ve already seen a few big promotions. Elite pitching prospect Brayan Bello and underrated reliever Andrew Politi both got sent up to Triple-A from Double-A earlier this week. Who could follow them?
With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the prospects in the Red Sox system that could be moving up in the world of baseball over the next few weeks.
To simplify things, we’re going to have some ground rules. Okay, one ground rule. It’s a pretty simple one – no promotions to the big leagues. We’re going to only be talking about promotions throughout the minors to other levels of the minor leagues.
The Red Sox have been really bad this season. That’s not exactly a secret. Because of that, there’s already been a ton of discussion about promoting players to the Majors.
You don’t really need to read another article talking about how Triston Casas or Ryan Fitzgerald should get a shot in Boston. Or how Zack Kelly, Josh Winckowski, and Connor Seabold could help the pitching staff.
So let’s not even worry about all that. Instead, we can focus on the prospects a little lower in the minor league levels. And see who could be getting a promotion to the next level sooner, rather than later.