Baseball America is busy right now putting together its top 20 prospects lists by league now that the minor league baseball season is over. They got started last week with the Arizona League, the Gulf Coast League, Appalachian League and Pioneer League.
Since the Boston Red Sox don’t participate in the Arizona, Appy Leagues or Pioneers Leagues, we’ll take a look at where their farmhands land in the GCL Top 20.
Two Red Sox minor leaguers made the list as SS Tzu-Wei Lin came in at No. 8 and RHP Francellis Montas came in at No. 20.
Lin was signed in June of 2012 with a signing bonus of $2.05 million out of Taiwan by the Red Sox. In 29 games with the GCL Red Sox, Lin hit .255 with no home runs, 16 RBIs and four stolen bases.
Montas was signed an amateur free agent out of the Dominican Republic in 2009 and spent his first two seasons with the Dominican Summer League Red Sox. He spent the 2012 season with the GCL Red Sox and Lowell Spinners.
He made 12 appearances (nine starts) with the GCL Red Sox and was 1-5 with a 3.98 ERA. He struck out 41 batters in 40.2 innings of work. He made one appearance for the Spinners in which he allowed one unearned run in 3.2 innings of work.
The next look at where Red Sox farmhands rank in their respective league comes in the next post when Baseball America looks at the top 20 prospects for the NY/Penn League.
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