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Baseball America breaks down Red Sox draft 10.20.10 at 2:43 pm ET
By Alex Speier

The Red Sox selected (L-to-R) Bryce Brentz, Anthony Ranaudo and Kolbrin Vitek with their first three picks of the 2010 draft. (John Corneau/Lowell Spinners)

Baseball America issued its annual draft report cards on Wednesday, suggesting that in their first draft under scouting director Amiel Sawdaye (who replaced Jason McLeod, who left to become Assistant GM in San Diego), “looked at talent rather than price tags and aggressively signed far more than their share of prospects.”

The complete Report Card is available (for Baseball America subscribers) by clicking here.

A few items of note from their evaluation of the team’s draft:

–While first-rounder Kolbrin Vitek is generally viewed as the most advanced hitter the Sox took in the draft, the Report Card suggested that high school second baseman Sean Coyle, who signed for $1.3 million to pass on a scholarship at UNC, could be the best pure hitter in the draft. The small-framed middle infielder shows surprising pop, as became evident when he homered early in Florida Instructional League.

–Sandwich pick Bryce Brentz was described as the best power hitting prospect (no surprise, given the Sox’ description of him as someone with light-tower power after drafting him), and was also noted for being potentially the best defensive player taken by the Sox, someone with a chance to be an above-average right-fielder.

–No surprise to see that Anthony Ranaudo, who received a $2.55 million bonus as a sandwich pick out of LSU, was named in the Closest to the Majors category. He was joined, however, by a less-heralded colleague who agreed to sign with the Sox at almost exactly the same moment as Ranaudo.

Both Ranaudo and left-hander Chris Hernandez agreed to deals with the Sox with roughly two minutes left before the Aug. 16 signing deadline. And while Ranaudo could be on a fast-track to a big league rotation, the Report Card suggested that Hernandez could beat Ranaudo to the majors as a left-handed reliever.

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    Ranaudo was a Beast in the Cape league. It was literally a man against boys despite the fact that the Cape League is a platform for amnerica’s best college players. Pray that the sox don’t push him too fast or let his arm get blown out. He will be a 21st century “Monster”!!

  • harold

    What I liked most about this draft is the college players. If theres one thing Theo and co. are good at its drafting college players. All of there best prospects came out of college. Papelbon, Pedroia, Buchholz, Ellsbury, Bard, Lowrie all out of college. He selected 4 college players in the first 2 rounds – at least one will be a star someday mark my word.

    I liked the Ranaudo pick however i feel his cape league stats might be misleading…the cape league is an extreme pitchers league. Most of the hitters are either acclimating themselves or reacclimating themselves to wood bat. I think their best pick was definitely Vitek. Will be a higher OBP guy in the .370 range similar to Pedroia but with more pop, in his prime a 30+ hr a year guy. I just hope he can stick at 3B defensively, if so watch out.

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