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 it started with the Arizona League, the Gulf Coast League, Appalachian League, Pioneer League, the Northwest League, NY/Penn League, the Midwest League, the South Atlantic League, California League, Carolina League, Florida State League, Eastern League, Southern League and Texas League. The Pacific Coast League top 20 was released earlier in the day on Monday.
Today we’ll take a look at where the Red Sox farmhands ranked in the top 20 of the International League where the Pawtucket Red Sox play.
The Red Sox had two farmhands in the top 20 as catcher Ryan Lavarnway (14th) and outfielder Josh Reddick (16th)
Lavarnway was a 6th round draft choice of the Red Sox out of Yale in 2008. He split his time with the Sea Dogs and PawSox before his promotion to the big club late in August. In 55 games with the Sea Dogs, he hit .284 with 14 home runs and 38 RBIs. In 61 games with the PawSox, he hit .295 with 18 home runs, 55 RBIs and had one stolen base. In his 17 games with the Red Sox, he hit .231 with two home runs and eight RBIs. When you combine his minor league stats, he hit .290 with 32 home runs, 93 RBIs and a stolen base.
Reddick played in 52 games with the PawSox this season. He hit .230 with 14 home runs, 36 RBIs and four stolen bases. He spent 87 games in the big leagues with the Red Sox hitting .280 with seven home runs, 28 RBIs and a stolen base. Before the 2011 season, he spent parts of the 2009 and 2010 season with the Red Sox as well. In 143 games with the Red Sox, Reddick is hitting .248 with 10 home runs, 37 RBIs and two stolen bases.
With this being the final league in which Red Sox farmhands play in, we’ll now wait until the various outlets release their top 10 Red Sox farmhands. And when they do, I’ll be sure to post them up here on the site.
