{"id":102577,"date":"2025-06-21T01:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=102577"},"modified":"2025-06-21T01:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:58:54","slug":"whats-next-red-sox-farm-system-post-big-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/21\/whats-next-red-sox-farm-system-post-big-three\/","title":{"rendered":"What Comes Next for Red Sox Farm System, Post-\u201cBig Three\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team without its top player now looks for who\u2019s next. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not in reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/deverra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafael Devers<\/a>&#8216; move to the West Coast. In reality, it&#8217;s about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/anthoro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roman Anthony<\/a>\u2019s absence from the Worcester Red Sox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In all seriousness, with the organization\u2019s \u201cbig three\u201d of Anthony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mayerma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcelo Mayer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/campbkr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristian Campbell<\/a> all making jumps to the show, it is time for the Boston Red Sox to develop the next crop down on the farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How the Red Sox Farm System Proceeds After Recent Call-Ups<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boston\u2019s prospect list was ranked number three in the league this spring, but outside of the top trio, the Red Sox\u2019s highest prospect in the MLB Top 100 is SS\/2B <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=arias-008fra&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Franklin Arias<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at No. 75.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But instead of another system reload, it might be time for General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/breslcr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Breslow<\/a> to bring the heat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInstead, we can no longer ask our fans to look to the future to think about a Red Sox team that\u2019s capable of winning the division and capable of making a deep postseason run,\u201d Breslow told the media this past October. \u201cI think, instead, we have to talk to decisive actions that we\u2019re taking right now to put a better team on the field in 2025.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Breslow ushered in the youth movement this season (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/09\/roman-anthony-baseballs-no-1-prospect-called-up-by-red-sox\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after some time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), Anthony &amp; Co. all came into the organization under Chaim Bloom&#8217;s tenure. With Bloom\u2019s rebuilding days in the past, and Breslow now trying to climb Boston out of a recent postseason drought, fans should not expect top 10 prospects to constantly walk through the door anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, who&#8217;s left?<\/p>\n<h3>The Next Generation<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102600\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-102600\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26267650_168400885_lowres-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26267650_168400885_lowres-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26267650_168400885_lowres-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26267650_168400885_lowres.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worcester center fielder Jhostynxon Garcia runs the bases after hitting a first inning home run against the Durham Bulls May 23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the Triple-A level, the new kids on the block are corner infielder <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=jordan000bla&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blaze Jordan<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and outfielder <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=garcia004jho&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jhostynxon Garcia<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Jordan has set the International League ablaze, batting<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> .339 with nine RBI in just 15 games. Garcia, who posted 23 homers across three levels in 2024, is batting .302 as the everyday centerfielder in Worcester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Names like Jordan and Garcia have caught eyes so far this year, especially with the Red Sox lacking security in a few positions, such as the season-ending injury to 1B <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/casastr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triston Casas<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">password ~denied~<\/p>\n<p>Jhostynxon Garcia has a CANNON. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JxHoJbNWqF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/JxHoJbNWqF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Worcester Red Sox (@WooSox) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WooSox\/status\/1936219277364691124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Double-A and further down, you can find the organization&#8217;s top arms. This includes LHP <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=early-000con&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connelly Early<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who is sporting a 2.17 ERA in Portland this season. Early and the rest of the lower-level arms are looking to follow in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=dobbihu01,dobbin001hun&amp;search=Hunter+Dobbins&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Dobbins<\/a>, who has played a pivotal role for the back end of the Red Sox rotation this season after bouncing around in the Sox system in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">8 strikeouts and 0 walks for Connelly Early in a dominant start for Portland. \ud83d\udcaa <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ws0OOGMY93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ws0OOGMY93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Sox Player Development (@RedSoxPlayerDev) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedSoxPlayerDev\/status\/1936066256118935595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will see which names become the next Anthony and Mayer within the system. Or, we will see who is next to have a one-way ticket out of town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boston and San Francisco\u2019s blockbuster exchange brought prospect <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=tibbs-000jam&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Tibbs III<\/a>\u00a0(<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RF) and a few other young names to the organization, but with Breslow deeming that this won\u2019t be a quiet July, expect the Sox to be the ones to ship out prospects next time around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This (trading Devers) is in no way signifying a waving of the white flag on 2025,\u201d Breslow said. \u201cWe are as committed as we were six months ago to putting a winning team on the field, to competing for the division and making a deep postseason run.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team without its top player now looks for who\u2019s next. This is not in reference to Rafael Devers&#8216; move to the West Coast. In reality, it&#8217;s about Roman Anthony\u2019s absence from the Worcester Red Sox. In all seriousness, with the organization\u2019s \u201cbig three\u201d of Anthony, Marcelo Mayer, and Kristian Campbell all making jumps to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5573,"featured_media":102599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,926,1071,35],"tags":[3624,28251,28775,28630,28602,4897,1535,28596,2021],"class_list":["post-102577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-milb","category-mlb","category-news","tag-blaze-jordan","tag-craig-breslow","tag-franklin-arias","tag-james-tibbs-iii","tag-kristian-campbell","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-rafael-devers","tag-roman-anthony","tag-triston-casas"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102601,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102577\/revisions\/102601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}