I like both of the skill sets that Kalish and Reddick bring to the table, and feel that both made a lot of positive progress this season. Reddick was much improved with his patience and the way he handled ABs. Kalish was able to go out and play at full strength again with his skills fully coming back to the surface. I do feel that Reddick has the higher ceiling and agree with the assessments/placements on the list.

Reddick has to make some more adjustments, mainly with consistently hitting the ball the other way at the major league level. That was something that sticks out a lot with him. Most of the time, he's still looking to pull the ball and yanks the ball on the outer third of the plate, rather than trying to look LF gap. He has some good power the other way, as seen by his first MLB homer, so its about refining that approach a bit more and going with what is given to him. I feel that improvement there and being able to shoot/drive some balls the other way is what is going to determine whether he can reach his potential as a major league regular.

Kalish impressed me during his stint at AA. He logged almost 400 ABs at AA this season and made some strong adjustments. I was fortunate to be able to see him right when he was promoted and then some times over the course of his progression during his time with Portland. He never really looked out of place or overmatched when he was struggling, which I thought was positive at the time. As he logged more and more ABs, he controled the strike zone and his ABs much better. Early, he let pitchers dictate the pace and was getting himself into bad counts. When he started hitting at a good clip, he was back on the ball much more and drove through pitches. I saw him hit a couple of balls out on a line where he showed some good power turning on the ball and improved lift. To me for Kalish, its going to be whether he can consistently drive balls gap-to-gap and flash enough power.

On a non-Sox note: I was impressed with what I saw of Zach McAllister when he threw against Portland at the end of the season as were a couple of scouts that happened to be in attendance the night I was up there. I think he projects as a 3-5 guy at the MLB level, but the way he pitched for a 21 year old was pretty impressive. "Pitch-ability" was a word that kept coming up during his outing and how he could move his ball to both sides of the plate. He'll pitch to contact at the big league level, but he has a knack for limiting hard contact.