The Boston Globe - 31.08.2019

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PAWTUCKET RED SOX
Through Thursday’s games
BATTING
Avg. AB R H HR RBI
Brentz................... 218 298466518 50
Centeno .............. .249 265 27 66 4 40
Chatham............. .271 70 7 19 2 9
Chavis ................. .242 66 9 16 5 7
Dalbec................. .274 95 11 26 7 15
DeLopez.............. .200 15 1 3 0 0
GHernández....... .217 428 74 93 16 53
Matheny ............. .000 3 1 0 0 0
OHernandez....... .203 138 18 28 5 17
Ockimey.............. .213 362 63 77 25 57
RCastillo.............. .278 449 63 125 17 62
Witte.................... .282 373 44 105 8 49
PITCHING
W-L ERA Sv. IP SO
Brewer ....................2-2 3.72 0 9„ 9
ERamírez.................5-8 4.66 0 119„ 91
Hart..........................9-6 3.69 0 95 76
Houck......................0-0 3.22 1 22‚ 25
Kelley ......................5-5 1.84 12 63„ 60
Lakins......................3-4 4.60 6 45 42
Mejia........................2-7 6.31 7 45„ 46
Poyner.....................2-5 3.60 5 55 66
Shawaryn ...............1-2 4.46 0 84„ 74
Stankiewicz............6-7 3.97 0 127 103
Sturgeon.................0-1 9.00 0 4 3
Tapia .......................4-3 4.83 2 63‚ 49
Velázquez...............0-0 3.31 1 16‚ 14
Weber......................1-5 4.50 0 78 63
Witte........................0-0 27.00 0 1 0

PORTLAND SEA DOGS
BATTING
Avg. AB R H HR RBI
Curletta............... .206 301 43 62 9 43
Duran................... .252 302 39 76 1 18
Hardy................... .161 31 1 5 0 1
JRivera ................ .232 323 33 75 5 31
Lovullo................. .143 49 2 7 0 2
Lucena ................ .500 2 0 1 0 0
Madden............... .235 68 6 16 5 12
Netzer.................. .244 446 52 109 7 48
Rei........................ .139 72 3 10 0 6
TJoseph............... .308 39 5 12 0 4
Tendler................ .241 399 45 96 10 56
Wilson................. .224 196 33 44 8 22
PITCHING
W-L ERA Sv. IP SO
AGomez ..................0-0 8.10 0 3‚ 3
Bazardo...................4-1 2.97 0 30‚ 31
DJimenez ................4-4 3.59 9 82„ 72
DReyes..................7-12 4.24 0 144‚ 107
Feltman...................2-3 5.47 4 49‚ 50
Gorst........................2-6 4.34 2 45„ 39
Kent.........................5-7 3.95 0 116‚ 79
Lau...........................1-4 2.77 7 48„ 57
Leyer .......................0-1 2.78 0 22„ 28
Mata........................3-6 5.79 0 46„ 50
McGrath..................7-1 1.68 1 112‚ 113
Wade.......................6-4 2.74 0 95‚ 64
Weems....................0-2 3.98 8 43 54

SALEM RED SOX
BATTING
Avg. AB R H HR RBI
Acosta................. .277 339 43 94 3 45
Benge.................. .250 324 38 81 6 35
Cottam................ .250 28 4 7 2 8
Curcio.................. .297 239 42 71 1 19
Downs ................. .167 66 6 11 0 1
Fitzgerald ........... .277 448 63 124 3 63
GWilliams........... .366 41 4 15 0 3
Granberg ............ .230 74 6 17 0 10
Marrero............... .159 44 3 7 1 3
Nishioka.............. .236 237 20 56 2 35
Osinski ................ .277 65 9 18 0 7
Rusconi ............... .193 374 45 72 3 29
PITCHING
W-L ERA Sv. IP SO
Browning ................2-1 3.46 1 13 5
DGonzalez.............5-10 4.45 0 145„ 97
DThompson............5-8 5.64 0 81‚ 49
De Jesus..................9-9 3.58 0 130„ 122
JDiaz ........................8-8 4.08 0 121‚ 110
JMartinez................4-4 4.02 1 47 56
LoBrutto..................2-1 2.10 3 34‚ 36
Osinski ....................0-0 0.00 0 0„ 0
Politi ........................5-2 3.51 1 74‚ 89
RGomez...................1-2 2.86 1 44 37
Schellenger ............1-1 5.75 2 36 51
Schwaab.................2-1 2.06 12 39‚ 43
Ward........................3-3 2.33 0 54 70
YAybar ....................0-0 2.25 0 4 2

Red Sox minor league statistics


By Alex Speier
GLOBE STAFF
Triston Casas entered the fi-
nal weekend of his first full pro-
fessional campaign amidst a
season that ap-
peared solid: A
.252 average,
.348 on-base
percentage, and .465 slugging
mark along with 18 homers
with Single A Greenville.
Yet with additional context,
it’s not hard to see why the
2018 first-rounder cemented
his place as the top prospect in
the Red Sox system, and why
his 2019 campaign stood out as
a tremendous building block as
he advances in his professional
career.
“It’s been really impressive
overall,” said farm director Ben
Crockett. “He takes an incredi-
bly professional approach to ev-
erything he does... There’s a
lot of purpose to everything he
does.”
Players drafted out of high
school — even first-rounders —
are supposed to be all but over-
whelmed by their first full year
in pro ball. The adjustments
are manifold: The physical
grind of playing every day, a
season that lasts five full
months, pitch quality and se-
quences unlike anything to
which they were exposed as
amateurs.
The goal of a player’s first
full professional season out of
high school often is survival,
the hope that through a year of
struggles, a player has a chance
to step back in the offseason,
reflect, and improve. The path
takenbyMichaelChavis—the
No. 26 pick in the 2014 draft —
is illustrative. He hit .223/.277/
.405 with 16 homers and five
strikeouts for every walk with
Single A Greenville in 2015,
and repeated the level in 2016
before his prospect break-
through the following year.
Casas — who, like Chavis,
was the No. 26 pick out of high
school — is on a different track.
His 18 homers entering Fri-


day were the third most of any
playerdrafted outofhigh
school last year, with the ability
to drive balls over the fence
from left-center to right coming
with little effort. He had a 2-
to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio,
and an 11.9 percent walk rate
that suggest excellent strike
zone judgment, and both ad-
vanced swing decisions and a
surprising ability to get the bat
on the ball for a player with his
giant frame (6 feet 4 inches,
238 pounds). His .813 OPS was
third among all players drafted
out of high school in 2018.
Casas showed impressive
tools this season: Solid bat-to-
ball skills against lefties and
righties, the potential for
above-average OBPs, and mid-
dle-of-the-order power, along
with strong defense.
“He shows a unique willing-
ness and ability to use the
whole field both to drive the
ball to the opposite field, but al-
so to take a single the other way
when it presents itself,” said
Crockett. “He’s had a lot of
team-first at-bats, but at the
same time, he can do damage
and has threat potential at any
point.”
Yet his 2019 season was de-

fined not just by tools or num-
bers, but perhaps even more by
aptitude, impressive maturity,
and self-understanding that
suggest a player who, as a teen-
ager multiple years from the
big leagues, seems like a good
bet to emerge as a valuable con-
tributor at the game’s highest
level.
To Casas, the year was not
about numbers, but instead ap-
proach and development — an
atypical perspective for a player
his age.
“I don’t even look at my own
stats. I only checked my stats
once this year, at the All-Star
break. I don’t even know where
I’m at. The only thing I know is
my home runs because every-
one bugs me about that,” Casas
said, noting that his teammates
have been nudging him about
the possibility of getting to 20
homers, a mark attained by just
one Sox teenager (Xander Bo-
gaerts in 2012) in the last 50
years. “I don’t try to shoot for
goals. I just try to put together
a quality at-bat every time.
“I’m trying to learn from my
mistakes, but obviously trying
to put up numbers as well. It’s a
fine line between making too
many adjustments and not

enough. But I’m still young. I’m
trying to make adjustments for
when the real calls come,” said
Casas. “I’m going to try to con-
tinue to learn about myself and
do the best I can.”
He’s shown a feel for his
swing and an unusual ability to
make adjustments. In spring
training, Casas made swing ad-
justments in an effort to con-
trol his swing-and-miss rate,
spreading his stance and get-
ting into a more pronounced
crouch at the plate. In April,
that effort backfired, as he hit
.208/.284/.364 while striking
out in 35 percent of plate ap-
pearances.
“Putting the ball in play for
me is something that’s really,
really important,” said Casas. “I
thought the adjustments I
made in spring training head-
ing into April were going to
limit those strikeouts. In reality,
they actually increased them.”
And so, he went back to his
more familiar, upright ap-
proach, and his season took off.
He showed not just the ability
to drive the ball with power,
but also to feature a two-strike
approach. There were other pe-
riods of struggle, including a
downturn in July (.183/.337/
.317), but he’s recovered with a
strong finishing kick, posting a
.295/.419/.475 line in 18 games
entering Friday.
“Whenever you fail, you
want to try to make adjust-
ments to fix your problems or
whatever is going on. I’m glad
the adjustments I made any
time I went through a little
stretchworked,”saidCasas.
“I’ve had a couple of those
stretches this year. I feel like
I’ve come out of it every time.”
The fact that Casas proved
capable of doing just that in the
context of his first full pro sea-
son suggests a player with a
chance to be a significant part
of the Red Sox’ future.

Alex Speier can be reached at
[email protected]. Follow
him on twitter at @alexspeier.

Casas: Professional approach


GREENVILLE DRIVE
BATTING
Avg. AB R H HR RBI
Batesole............... 209 139 14 29 07
Brannen.............. .201 432 48 87 1 34
Casas .................. .252 417 63 105 18 76
Dearden.............. .209 201 18 42 4 20Esplin .................. .254 382 52 97 5 43
Howlett............... .225 377 46 85 7 34
Lozada ................ .227 242 35 55 6 23
Ortega................. .178 180 12 32 2 17
Rangel................. .333SMiranda............ .286 21 33 0 1 0 06 0 0
Suarez................. .189 217 25 41 2 25
Wren ................... .229 410 46 94 6 43
PITCHING
W-L ERA Sv. IP SO
Baker.......................0-1 4.12 0Batesole..................0-0 0.00 0 19„ 18 2 0
Bello ........................5-9 5.35 0 112„ 118
Biondic....................4-8 4.29 1 94‚ 51
Demchak ................3-1 1.98 3 41 50
Fisher ......................1-2 5.19 1HRequena...............0-0 5.40 0 17‚ 18 5 0
Haworth..................5-8 4.72 2 103 124
Mosqueda ..............2-2 3.20 2 50„ 66
Nail ..........................0-1 3.96 0 25 37
Ortega.....................1-0 0.00 0Padron ....................2-7 3.21 1 733 820
Scherff ..................5-12 4.83 0 123 109
Shugart...................6-4 2.81 0 89„ 73
YPantoja.................6-3 3.54 1 61 72

LOWELL SPINNERS
BATTING
Avg. AB R H HR RBI
Arnold ................. .119 42 6Bandy.................. .160 100 11 16 0 85 1 5
Campana............ .216 125 19 27 7 21
Cannon ............... .217 152 14 33 3 21
Dalton ................. .192 104 16 20 2 13
Davis ................... .293 133 18 39 5 27Decker................. .235 166 21 39 6 24
Diaz ..................... .253 99 15 25 1 7
Erro...................... .264 129 14 34 0 16
Flores .................. .185 173 12 32 0 10
GJimenez............ .366 227 35 83 3 19Groshans............ .217 143 15 31 4 21
KPetit ................ 1.000 1 0 1 0 0
LeGrant............... .281 57 12 16 1 5
Northcut ............. .214 187 20 40 1 22Scott.................... .261 119 20 31 3 12
PITCHING
W-L ERA Sv. IP SO
Cellucci...................1-0 5.25 0 12 17
De La Rosa.............4-1 1.93 3 23‚ 23
Fernandez ..............3-1 2.55 4 42‚ 38
Jackson...................2-3 1.42 7KSanchez................3-4 4.95 0 25‚ 26 40 36
Lucas.......................5-6 5.29 0 51 41
Murphy ...................0-1 1.08 0 33‚ 34

Pdrn-Artilles...........7-1 2.67 0Ramirez ..................2-3 4.11 0 (^64578458)
Scroggins ...............0-0 7.30 0 12‚ 15
Song ........................0-0 1.06 0 17 19
Spacke....................0-0 4.66 0 9„ 13
Suero.......................2-3 3.07 1YSantana................3-4 3.44 0 4155 5532
Zeferjahn................0-2 4.12 0 19„ 27
MINOR
DETAILS
FILE/JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
Triston Casas has been impressive in his first full pro
campaign, cementing his status as the Sox’ top prospect.
FILE/ALEX SPEIER/GLOBE STAFF
Jarren Duran slugged his
first career Double A home
run earlier this month.
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