Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein has his Top 11 Boston Red Sox Prospects up. There is no surprise with the top two players, but sinkerballer Justin Materson at #3 may be more eyebrow raising. He struck out 115 in 153.2 innings of work between AA and AAA. That is not the ratio I normally associate with major league success
However, I suspect the high-profile success of the Yankees' Chien-Ming Wang and the Indians Fausto Carmona has made the groundball-inducing pitching prospect a more attractive option for long-term success.
I do wonder if this is the discovery of a new market inefficiency or a mistake of using the success of a non-representative sample to make an incorrect valuation.
| RK | PLAYER | POS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clay Buchholz | RHP |
| 2 | Jacoby Ellsbury | CF |
| 3 | Justin Masterson | RHP |
| 4 | Jed Lowrie | SS |
| 5 | Ryan Kalish | OF |
| 6 | Michael Bowden | RHP |
| 7 | Lars Anderson | 1B |
| 8 | Nick Hagadone | RHP |
| 9 | Oscar Tejeda | SS |
| 10 | Josh Reddick | OF |
| 11 | Che-Husan Lin | OF |