Baltimore – Red sox prospect Justin Gonzalas He showed his dirty power as a 17 -year -old in the Dominican Summer League last year. He bowed .517 with five ridges at home, 11 doubles and four triples in 47 games (192 appearances in plates).
But Boston believes that the heartbeat has more power potential, and development staff works to get the ball more elevated.
“Obviously he has a physical advantage right now because he is like 6-6 and only a large and strong animal,” Camden Yards told Camden Yards Monday.
Gonzalas is a candidate for the rupture of Red Sox Prospect in 2025. It is expected to start this season in extensive spring training in Fort Myers, and then play Florida Complex League Red Sox.
This summer it has the potential to raise the organizational rankings. The MLB pipeline already has the number 15 classified The system and said, “generates great output speeds with its rapid right -hand force and its prodigious strength, and its promise as a heartbeat offers additional intrigue. He published a good novelty and contact rates in the DSL.
Baseball America is not yet listing in its first 30 places. Masslive ranked him at number 25 in his preseason Top 25 Red Sox Perspectives.
The Red Sox are trying to get the ball in the air more coherent. Romero said, “It really has been good for training.”
“He is an older and strong child who already has a good sense of hitting, a good sense of contact. So we just have to make a couple of minor adjustments to his angles of throwing and things like that,” said Romero. “And those really low line units, we can start getting a little more and more and finding some lagoons.”
Boston signed Gonzalas for $ 250,000 from the Dominican Republic as an amateur international amateur agent on January 15, 2024.
He said in September he hopes to grow more. His father is 6-4 years old and his mother 6-3.
For such a young beat, it has an impressive and patient approach. He beat .320 with a percentage of .391 at the base in the DSL and had almost as many walks (19) as the attacks (20). Likes to hit all fields and It strives to play with the same traffic as the Superstrella Ronald Auña Jr..
Gonzalas, who the Red Sox named his Latin player in 2025, interprets both the first base and the first base.
The MLB pipeline classifies the arm a 70 (more) on the 20-80 classification scale.
“It’s really intriguing in general,” Romero said. “I know we played a little in the central field throughout the spring and we will do it in a widespread and a little we go there. But give it all the opportunities. If not, it can definitely be outlined in a corner.”
“Legit Five Tools”
Stay tuned to the first two places of Red Sox of 2025, Dorian Soto and Harold Rivas. They should play this season in the DSL.
Pipeline mlb It was classified in 6 feet 2, of 177 pounds, perspective number 32 of the International Signature Period of 2025. It said in its research report: “Its bat speed is constantly above the average of the main league, checking about 75-76 mph, while also producing constantly output speeds in the north of 100 mph”.
“We knew he was above the average of bat of bat,” Romero said. “I think with the gains of strength he has already achieved, we have seen that improve. And with that, the quality of contact has also improved. So when we sought him, we saw that he had a good base to work. And only a dynamic player, someone we thought had potential for the five legitimate tools.”
MLB Pipeline also said that Rivas, a central camper, has a five tool potential and wrote that “a evaluator granted a Comp from George Springer.”
“He is a prominent defender,” Romero said. “He can throw. He is a very good runner. In addition to runner. And so the fact that he is doing these steps on the offensive side is really impressive.”
MLBPIPELINE classified Soto the global perspective number 8 for the international signing period of 2025. Boston commissioned him on January 15 to a $ 1.4 million bonus.
In the list of 6 feet of 2, 180 pounds, MLB Pipeline describes Soto who struck 60 (more) and his power 55 (above average).
“Another type of physical type. He advanced physically,” said Romero.
Romero said that the Red Sox will keep him in the spotlight right now. Scouting reports have said that the short film may have to move while it continues to grow.
“I want to try to do my best to keep it there,” he said. “Only a kind that is very talented and can do a lot to a young age. He is a switch. He has a punch. Working in some Bat-to-Ball workouts with him now. But only the child he gets later. He arrives in the weights.
“They have really healthy competition between boys like him and Rivas I (Fellow 2025 International Signee) Hector Ramos and a couple of other boys,” said Romero. “So it was good to see that these boys have this camaraderie and this ethic of work. But he is a boy who soon drives the ball from both sides.
“He is a boy who has an impact potential,” Romero said. “We only see if with training and work ethics and all this, we can wrap it together and see where it is going.”
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