{"id":608776,"date":"2026-03-06T00:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:51:33","slug":"red-sox-announce-2026-spring-breakout-roster-prospects-to-watch-in-matchup-with-orioles-red-sox-minor-league-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/608776\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Announce 2026 Spring Breakout Roster: Prospects To Watch In Matchup With Orioles &#8211; Red Sox Minor League Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe Spring Breakout Event is back this year, featuring some of the best prospects in all of baseball. The Boston Red Sox&#8217;s contingent will square off against the Baltimore Orioles on March 20 (6:05pm EST).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe annual event has led to some memorable moments in recent iterations \u2014 it was just last year that Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer, and Kristian Campbell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/redsox\/news\/kristian-campbell-marcelo-mayer-go-back-to-back-in-spring-breakout\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all homered in the Spring Breakout game<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and this year&#8217;s contest should be no different. Many of Talk Sox&#8217;s top 20 Red Sox prospects in 2026 will be in attendance, as will a large swath of the team&#8217;s top 2025 draft picks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBelow you&#8217;ll find the team&#8217;s initial 40-man pool of players eligible for the game; due to the World Baseball Classic interrupting spring training, the Red Sox will finalize their roster (consisting of 23-27 total players) on March 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPITCHERS (18)<br \/>Cooper Adams, RHP<br \/>Jake Bennett, LHP<br \/>Alex Bouchard, RHP<br \/>Sadbiel Delzine, RHP<br \/>Austin Ehrlicher, RHP<br \/>Anthony Eyanson, RHP<br \/>Leighton Finley, RHP<br \/>John Holobetz, RHP<br \/>Jacob Mayers, RHP<br \/>Hayden Mullins, LHP<br \/>Marcus Phillips, RHP<br \/>Eduardo Rivera, LHP<br \/>Reidis Sena, RHP<br \/>Brady Tygart, RHP<br \/>Tyler Uberstine, RHP<br \/>Juan Valera, RHP<br \/>Kyson Witherspoon, RHP<br \/>Gage Ziehl, RHP\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCATCHERS (4)<br \/>Nate Baez<br \/>Johanfran Garcia<br \/>Franklin Primera<br \/>Gerardo Rodriguez\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tINFIELDERS (11)<br \/>Marvin Alcantara<br \/>Franklin Arias<br \/>Josue Brito<br \/>Yoeilin Cespedes<br \/>Freili Encarnacion<br \/>Henry Godbout<br \/>Ahbram Liendo<br \/>Hector Ramos<br \/>Mikey Romero<br \/>Dorian Soto<br \/>Mason White\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOUTFIELDERS (7)<br \/>Enddy Azocar<br \/>Miguel Bleis<br \/>Allan Castro<br \/>Anderson Fermin<br \/>Justin Gonzales<br \/>Harold Rivas<br \/>Nelly Taylor\n<\/p>\n<p>\tSpring Breakout Pitching Prospect To Watch: Kyson Witherspoon<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe still haven&#8217;t actually seen the Red Sox&#8217;s top draft pick from 2025 actually take the field with the team, but what a stage this would be for the former Oklahoma Sooner to make his pro baseball debut. There are concerns about his command, but Witherspoon has an electric fastball and dominant breaking pitches that would play really well in a short one- or two-inning stint that the Spring Breakout Game would afford him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt&#8217;s possible he doesn&#8217;t make the final roster once the Red Sox pare down their 40-man pool, but the point of this game is to highlight the best prospect talent in every team&#8217;s farm system. As a consensus top-five prospect in the organization right now, Witherspoon certainly fits that distinction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tSpring Breakout Hitting Prospect To Watch: Franklin Arias<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSomeone who will definitely be on the final roster is Arias, who has already made some flashy plays in the field this spring. He&#8217;s looked overmatched in his few trips to the plate, but he mustered a 109 wRC+ in 2205 while ascending to Double-A as a teenager. Now set for his age-20 season, the slick-fielding shortstop is arguably the best prospect in the system heading into 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter the memorable performance the Big 3 put forth last year, it&#8217;d be nice to see Arias get his own shining moment during the nationally broadcasted prospect-fest.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talksox.com\/news-rumors\/red-sox-minor-league\/red-sox-announce-2026-spring-breakout-roster-prospects-to-watch-in-matchup-with-orioles-r3059\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spring Breakout Event is back this year, featuring some of the best prospects in all of baseball.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,5638,4,89,2543],"class_list":["post-608776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-kyson-witherspoon","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116179493557565347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608776","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=608776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}