Sox farm system ranked 13th

Posted on January 15, 2009
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It sounds a lot worse than it is, but Baseball America has ranked Boston’s farm system as the 13th “best” in baseball for 2009. That’s quite a jump from 2nd last year but there is a pretty easy explanation of that. Of last year’s top 5 Red Sox prospects (Buchholz, Ellsbury, Anderson, Masterson, and Lowrie), only 1 of them didn’t graduate to the major leagues. Lars Anderson is the only player still waiting for his shot to come to Boston.

You can read a transcript of ESPN’s chat with Jim Callis of BA but I’ll just save you the trouble and tell you what you’re looking for: the Yankees are ranked 15th.