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Boston Red Sox Top Ten Prospects for 2017

By Benjamin Chase

Mar 7, 2015; Sarasota, FL, USA; A general view of Boston Red Sox hat and glove laying in the dugout at a spring training baseball game at Ed Smith Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 7, 2015; Sarasota, FL, USA; A general view of Boston Red Sox hat and glove laying in the dugout at a spring training baseball game at Ed Smith Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports /
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9. Luis Alexander Basabe, OF

Birthdate: 8/26/96 (20 years old)
Level(s) Played in 2016: low-A, high-A
Stats in 2016: .264/.328/.452, 12 HR, 25 SB

If you want to see 5 tools in action, catch a glimpse of Basabe. Part of a set of twins that the Red Sox signed in 2012 out of Venezuela (before trading his brother to Arizona this summer), Basabe has jumped up the Boston system, all the way to high-A as a teen in 2016.

Basabe’s tools all rate as future plus tools, with only his hit tool really still not showing as above-average at least in game play already. Even then, the hit tool has been showing at fringe average to average now.

Basabe’s tools all rate as future plus tools, with only his hit tool really still not showing as above-average at least in game play already

Basabe still needs work in his pitch recognition, and that is really the last step in his hit tool as well. Right now, the power and speed play extremely well in game.

Basabe has the speed and arm to handle any position in the outfield. His plus to plus-plus arm would rate well in right field, but he’s been playing center field at this point as he’s able to handle it for now.

Basabe will be an interesting one to watch in the next year as he could be a guy worthy of top-100 consideration or flame out fairly soon in his development.

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