Top Red Sox pitching prospects drawing rave reviews after first month

Last summer the Red Sox made pitching a top priority in the draft selecting arms over the discipline of rounds to help replenish a farm system that for years lacked high-end arms Less than a year later two of the top players from that class are already beginning to turn heads Payton Tolle and Brandon Clarke both hard throwers who were among Boston s top five selections in last year s draft have gotten off to fantastic starts in their professional careers Both pitchers have made impressive velocity gains to push their fastballs into the high s and Wednesday the two broke into Baseball America s Top Prospect rankings giving the Red Sox six players on the list Tolle Boston s second-round pick and the highest remaining participant in the class after first-rounder Braden Montgomery was traded in the Garrett Crochet deal checked in at No Clarke a left-hander taken in the fifth round broke into the rankings at No They join Roman Anthony Kristian Campbell Marcelo Mayer and Franklin Arias though Campbell requirements only a handful more at-bats to graduate from prospect status Farm Assessment Top-ranked Red Sox system living up to early hype This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e statistics if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i