Red Sox Draft Recap- Day One
The Red Sox took power bats and a power arm on the draft's first night.
Category: Reymond Fuentes
The MLB Draft: The Henry Ownership Years
With the 2013 amateur draft in the books, Chip looks through the Red Sox's last 12 drafts.
The Anthony Rizzo Extension: What Could Have Been
What Anthony Rizzo's deal tells us about our current "player development machine."
The Resurrection of the Farm System
Chip examines the resurrection of the Red Sox farm system, and provides some insight on the organization's most exciting prospects.
Red Sox Banking on Some Great Genes.
If blood lines mean anything, the Red Sox may have hit a home run when they made center fielder Reymond Fuentes their first-round pick (28th overall) in the 2009 draft.
The 19-year-old Fuentes is a first cousin of New York Mets’ All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran – who also graduated from the same high school (Fernando Callejo in Manati, Puerto Rico) as Fuentes.
Fuentes, a high school sprint champion, was rated as the third-fastest runner among draft-eligible high school players. He’s been clocked in 6.2 seconds for the 60-yard dash.
Not surprisingly, Fuentes admits he models his game after his star cousin.
“I consider myself very similar to Carlos because when he’s playing, he just plays the game and nothing else,” Fuentes told The Boston Globe. “When I play, I get very focused on what I do. I don’t pay any mind to anything outside the game.”
Getting to know Sox first-round pick Reymond Fuentes
If blood lines mean anything, the Red Sox may have hit a home run when they made center fielder Reymond Fuentes their first-round pick (28th overall).
The 18-year-old Fuentes is a first cousin of New York Mets' All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran - who also graduated from the same high school (Fernando Callejo in Manati, Puerto Rico) as Fuentes.