With the conclusion of every major league season comes the beginning of the second season of “minor” leagues in baseball – the Winter Leagues. This 2009 off-season, the Sox have placed 17 promising prospects across four leagues, including some of the most exciting names in the organization, such as Casey Kelly, Ryan Kalish, Jose Iglesias, and Yamiaco Navarro.
The Winter Leagues are one of the more interesting annual rituals of the MLB, aside from maybe the Rule 5 Draft, as every team in baseball pours their most highly touted prospects into one pool where they duke it out for organizational supremacy.
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Wagner – TJ Perrini
The Red Sox need a catcher of the future, and one of the internal names is Mark Wagner, who is the best defensive catcher in the Sox system. He also can handle the stick, something he struggled with last year.
“Looking back on (2008), it was a heck of a learning experience for me,” admitted Wagner, who was hitting .301 with 18 doubles, three home runs, 23 RBI and a .410 on-base percentage in 42 games with Portland. “That’s what I really learned last year in Portland … how to stick with the process and how to stay within yourself and that, when you start to slump, you can’t get it all back in one game.”
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Fortunately for Portland, Monday is an off day.
The Sea Dogs can use the time to lick their wounds after dropping five of six games to the Connecticut Defenders.
Perhaps Sunday
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