Over the Monster Top-20 Prospects Voting #19: Controversy for Boss?

how can you post this and be considered credible?

Give him all time time you want, there are guys right now with plenty of tools and plenty of potential who’ve shown more than Boss.

Madison Younginer
Tim Federowicz
Michael Almanzar
Will Middlebrooks (very raw)
Stephen Fife
Alex Wilson
Kyle Weiland

And for your arguement of seeing these players in action, I’ve seen all but Wilson and Weiland play ball (Greenville and Younginer in High School)

Randy, maybe we shouldn’t just assign Fed-Ex the number 18 spot, but a re-vote might be a more acceptable option.

You’re right that it’s not about who is best now, and you’re right that my opinion doesn’t take precedence over anyone else who makes an equally informed one—which is why I’ve given the Boss voters the benefit of the doubt despite the appearance of ballot stuffing (the fact that Boss got his first vote around 18 or 19 votes in before getting 0 votes in I believe ANY prior voting period, and then proceeding to receive something like 9 of the next 11 votes) and accepted Boss at #18 barring a directive from higher authority (actually, it seems I haven’t changed the list yet. My bad). But when making this decision, there are things that can be taken into account such as scouting reports and statistical performances to date.

Scouting reports say Boss is a young guy with big power potential. Stats say he’s shown none of it in the low-level GCL. Could it show up this year? Sure, why not? The guy was only 17. But there are a lot of other very raw toolsy players who don’t have things like being relegated to first base working against them. There are also a bunch of older guys who may not have as high a cieling but are showing much more and are much more likely to make it to the MLB at this point (Ryan Lavarnway, Stephen Fife). And it’s worth noting that no other top-X lists have so much as mentioned Boss Moanaroa because, at this point, he’s mostly just a guy to keep your eye on.

Even then, I likely wouldn’t have brought it up had Moanaroa followed normal voting patterns. I don’t agree with the list 100% at this point. But from having seen all these votes progress, I know that a guy doesn’t just come out of nowhere in the period of a few days. It’s always been a matter of a few guys who got a few votes in the last poll duking it out between them. Boss essentially came out and ran before he had walked. Excuse me if I’m a little suspicious. Maybe it’s a bunch of Central Coast fans voting in their favorite NSW player, but that’s not exactly what this is about. Will Middlebrooks has a couple of fans, possibly family, who have been voting for him every single time since the start of the list. Now, were he to get in here, I wouldn’t be too surprised (assuming he got a few other votes in the prior poll), but if somehow we only had 5 votes in the first poll and 3 of them had been from Will Middlebrooks fans, are you really going to tell me he should be considered #1?

Certainly we all hope all Sox prospects end up as good as they can be.

While it’s still just batting practice, there’s never anything wrong with previously untapped power.

Look up “Boats and Hoes” Step Brothers!! Haha!