Red Sox Jump In ESPN’s Post-Trade Deadline MLB Farm System Rankings

The Boston Red Sox have made progress across the organization this season.

The big-league club is in a playoff race, top prospects are performing at a high level and the organization added talent both in the MLB draft and at the trade deadline.

Focusing on their future, ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel highlighted that leap for Boston, boosting the farm system to No. 10 in his rankings from No. 13 to start the season.

“This is the first season (Marcelo Mayer) has looked like the guy that scouts were expecting,” McDaniel wrote. “Now he and Roman Anthony are both in MLB’s top 20 prospects while playing in Double-A with 2025 debuts looking likely, giving some hope that the team could be a factor in the AL East while staying under the first CBT threshold.”

McDaniel added: “Braden Montgomery was a great value at the No. 12 overall pick in last month’s draft and the Red Sox also have two of the most notable rising position players in the minors: Kristian Campbell and Franklin Arias. The No. 132 pick in last summer’s draft, Campbell is now in Double-A outperforming Mayer and Anthony, tapping into plus raw power, showing plus speed and a plus sense of the strike zone.”

The Red Sox, as chief baseball officer Craig Breslow intended, set up a team to win in 2024 while constructing a legitimately bright future with talent.