Who’s this Red Sox prospect who came out of nowhere to land on a Top 10?
Red Sox 20-year-old minor league pitcher Jedixson Paez is a relatively unknown prospect with little information about him online. Baseball America has no scouting report and doesn’t rank him among Boston’s Top 30 prospects. The righty also doesn’t appear on MLB Pipeline’s Red Sox Top 30 list.
Out of nowhere though, he landed as Boston’s No. 8 prospect on a Top 47 Red Sox prospect list that Fangraphs dropped July 2.
The Venezuela native is 3-1 with a 2.67 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 72 strikeouts and just seven walks in 13 outings (six starts) between Low-A Salem and High-A Greenville. He’s averaging 11.3 strikeouts and only 1.1 walks per nine innings. He earned his promotion to High A on May 29.
“He’s always had this incredible poise and just an advanced feel,” Red Sox assistant GM Eddie Romero said. “It’s always been like that — strike throwing ability over high velo or pure off-the-charts stuff. But his pitchability is incredible. We’ve seen the velo tick up now into the low 90s. Really good feel for a breaking ball. He has a four- or five-pitch mix that he really controls and commands really well. And that’s been kind of what has driven his success.”
