Boston Red Sox Prospect Watch: A week with the Portland Sea Dogs

Red Sox Prospect Watch features in-person Portland Sea Dogs action

There’s a lot to talk about in this week’s Boston Red Sox Prospect Watch. I went to the Portland Sea Dogs games in-person because they were playing about an hour away from me. There were a ton of takeaways from the games, but I’ll try to not ramble too much during that slide.

As for the other teams – don’t worry, I’m a nerd. So I was watching the other Red Sox MiLB games while at the game, and catching up on them more when I got home.

That was important because there’s a lot to talk about this week. We saw some big-time performances, some promotions, and more.

In the Majors, Boston continues to play pretty solid. The season turnaround has been nice and they’ve gotten some contributions from a few prospects. This week, we saw Josh Winckowski get his second shot in the Majors. He earned his first MLB win thanks to five scoreless innings that saw him give up just four hits and one walk, while striking out three.

Kutter Crawford made another start, but wasn’t able to replicate his success of last time. Four runs in four innings isn’t great. But it was against a stacked St. Louis Cardinals lineup and at least he got through four innings. It’s not like Crawford gave Boston one inning and went on his way.

Jarren Duran has finally gotten a little bit of steady playing time in the Majors this week. He’s given the team a few positives too. Continuing to show off that ridiculous speed to help generate some offense. Speed is something Boston has lacked for years. So whenever he’s in the lineup it definitely adds something to the team.