{"id":544546,"date":"2026-01-29T20:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/544546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:06:19","slug":"keith-law-changes-tune-on-red-sox-in-new-farm-system-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/544546\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Law Changes Tune On Red Sox In New Farm System Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Keith Law published his new top 100 prospect rankings for The Athletic (subscription required). <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/which-red-sox-players-made-keith-laws-2026-top-prospect-rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four Boston Red Sox players<\/a> made the list, including three pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>That speaks to how quickly Craig Breslow has improved the team\u2019s pitching pipeline since he took over in late 2023. Whereas his predecessor, Chaim Bloom, focused more on position players, Breslow has loaded the Red Sox\u2019s farm system with promising arms.<\/p>\n<p>That transformation has impressed Law, who\u2019s been a bit lower on Boston\u2019s farm system than his peers in recent years. Now, he seems to be more bullish than them, putting the Red Sox at No. 10 in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6998285\/2026\/01\/29\/top-farm-systems-mlb-brewers-dodgers-mariners\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new farm system rankings<\/a>. He also has them in Tier 3 out of eight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor several years, I had the Red Sox rated a little lower than perhaps their fans wanted, because there was no pitching at all in the system,\u201d Law explained. \u201cNow they\u2019re a pitching development powerhouse, with two left-handed starters on the top 100 who made enormous strides in 2025, while they\u2019ve graduated their big three hitting prospects, so their system is now extremely pitching-heavy. That\u2019s not a bad thing, just an interesting 180 in such a short span.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Boston\u2019s top prospect according to Law, Franklin Arias, is a position player. Law also has Payton Tolle, Connelly Early and Kyson Witherspoon in his top 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox have graduated several of their top position player prospects to the Majors recently, including Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer and Kristian Campbell. They\u2019ve also traded away numerous prospects during Breslow\u2019s tenure \u2014 something Bloom was reluctant to do.<\/p>\n<p>Boston\u2019s investment on the mound is paying off, as Breslow has assembled one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/red-sox-get-bold-prediction-on-rotation-after-reportedly-signing-ranger-suarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best rotations in baseball<\/a> and remarkable starting pitching depth. Tolle and Early both debuted last year and pitched in the postseason, so they appear poised for even bigger roles in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, Keith Law published his new top 100 prospect rankings for The Athletic (subscription required). Four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,36543,3971,5638,4,3973,89,1195,2543],"class_list":["post-544546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-connelly-early","tag-franklin-arias","tag-kyson-witherspoon","tag-mlb","tag-payton-tolle","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-prospects","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115980192008088296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544546","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=544546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}