{"id":534728,"date":"2026-01-23T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/534728\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:23:13","slug":"red-sox-land-5-players-on-mlb-network-top-100-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/534728\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox land 5 players on MLB Network top-100 list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning! MLB Network just completed its annual exercise in ranking the top-100 players in Major League Baseball.<\/a> You already know who number 1 is, and he doesn\u2019t play for the Red Sox. But Garrett Crochet does, and he led the way for the Sox by coming in as the 12th-best player in the game. Rounding out the rankings for the Sox were Roman Anthony (41), Jarren Duran (58), Ranger Su\u00e1rez (79), and Aroldis Chapman (81). Only four other teams in baseball have as many as five players on the list: the Dodgers (8), Yankees (6), Mariners, (5), and Phillies (5).<\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting about the Red Sox rankings is that, with the exception of Crochet, the Sox contingent has a lot of variance. I would not at all be surprised if neither Su\u00e1rez nor Chapman turned out to be top-100 players this year, while I also wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Jarren Duran is on another team. As for Anthony, I would actually be disappointed if he\u2019s only the 41st-best player in baseball. He has the potential to establish himself as a top-10 player as soon as this year and, if I had to wager on it, I\u2019d tab him to finish at least in the top-30 in 2026.<\/p>\n

Talk about what you want, think about whether your one of the top-100 anythings in the world, and be good to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning! MLB Network just completed its annual exercise in ranking the top-100 players in Major League Baseball.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,45988,89,15409,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-534728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-open-thread","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-red-sox-news","16":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115945577467081422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}