Honk if you’re enthusiastic about Xander Bogaerts coming to play ball in the major leagues.
Bogaerts, a 20-yr-previous infielder and the top prospect within the Boston Pink Sox group, will be a part of the membership in San Francisco, several shops reported Monday. He is the youngest place participant for the Purple Sox since Dwight Evans debuted in 1972, and he is no less proficient. Amongst present major leaguers, only Bryce Harper of the Nationals and Jurickson Profar of the Rangers are youthful.
Bogaerts, whose glove is nice sufficient for shortstop but also has logged time at third base, will begin as a utility player for the Red Sox, studies Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe. Nonetheless, it would not be surprising to see him starting down the stretch if Will Middlebrooks falters at third base or if shortstop Stephen Drew gets hurt once more.
Baseball America listed Bogaerts as the No. eight prospect overall coming into the season. Regardless, he immediately steps into the majors with top-of-the-line names in the league. In fact, the Purple Sox did not promote him as a result of his name sounds cool throughout lineup introductions (although there most likely have been worse reasons some have been called as much as the majors).
Bogaerts batted297/.388/.477 with 15 home runs and forty four whole additional-base hits in 515 plate appearances at Class AA and AA. At 6-foot-3 and 185 kilos, he’s nonetheless filling out his body. He’s a great interview, too, which is a plus for a 20-yr-previous:
A native of Aruba, he performed for the Dutch nationwide team on the World Baseball Classic that finished fourth. Baseball is nicknamed “honkbal” within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which makes me consider geese.
Xander. Bogaerts (plural). Honkbal. And he can play.
Red Sox promote 20-year-old Xander Bogaerts to major league squad
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