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Posts: 10068 09/09/11 2:11 PM Mike Andrews Editor-in-Chief SoxProspects.com	Tags : None Place your vote for the player that you feel had the best "breakout" season in 2011. A "breakout player" is one who becomes a major prospect after previously being considered less than such, or alternatively one who rises from nowhere to vault himself into prospect status. This year's pick is tough - we couldn't whittle the nominees beyond seven. Please do not vote based on who you think is the best prospect or who you think may perform better in the future. This poll will close on Friday, September 16. All stats are cumulative for all Red Sox minor league affiliates. Full stats are available here. Breakout Player of the Year (Total Votes: 149) - Closed Raul Alcantara 1-4, 2.20 ERA, 50/12 K/BB, 65.1 IP (LowGCL) (3 / 2%) Xander Bogaerts .260/.324/.509/.834 with 16 HRs (Gre) (44 / 29.5%) Bryce Brentz .306/.365/.574/.939 with 30 HRs (Sal/Gre) (30 / 20.1%) Brandon Jacobs .303/.376/.505/.881 with 17 HRs, 31 SBs (Gre) (13 / 8.7%) Miles Head .299/.372/.515/.887 with 22 HRs (Sal/Gre) (17 / 11.4%) Will Middlebrooks .285/.328/.506/.834 with 23 HRs, 10 SBs (Por/Paw/Low) (16 / 10.7%) Christian Vazquez .283/.358/.505/.863 with 18 HRs (Gre) (26 / 17.4%)
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charliezink16		#1	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 950 09/09/11 5:20 PM	A "breakout player" is one who becomes a major prospect after previously being considered less than such, or alternatively one who rises from nowhere to vault himself into prospect status. This is why I don't believe Bogaerts should be a clear winner. Both Brentz and especially Head fit this criteria better IMO, plus the fact that their stats are better than Bogaerts. Twitter (Tweet about Sox alot) YouTube Account
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Posts: 1816 09/09/11 8:24 PM Senior Forum Moderator	I'm not sure I follow your logic here in regards to Brentz. He was ranked 23 on this site on April 1. Bogaerts was 24. Doesn't that contradict your point? I think Head is closer to the second half of the bolded text, while Bogaerts fits in to the first half. Bogaerts has gone from interesting prospect to elite prospect in the system. Head came from no where to be a good/solid prospect. Both deserve to be on the poll. I tend to lean towards the newly-elite prospect over the newly-prospecty prospect.
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hockeypuck2008		#3	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 2529 09/09/11 8:30 PM Veteran Member	A "breakout player" is one who becomes a major prospect after previously being considered less than such, or alternatively one who rises from nowhere to vault himself into prospect status. If that doesn't describe Vazquez I don't know what does. Last Edited By: hockeypuck2008 09/09/11 9:30 PM. Edited 1 time.
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Yirmiyahu		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3392 09/09/11 9:07 PM Forum Moderator	Middlebrooks has always been a high-ceiling, fairly highly-touted guy (he's been in the top 20 since he was drafted) who I think has made a pretty slow and steady climb through the system. Meanwhile, I think most of us started to take notice of Bogaerts' numbers in the DSL last year, and then learned in the fall (from scouts and folks in the org) that he was actually a legit prospect who got a pretty big signing bonus. I voted Vazquez. Who was never supposed to be anything (as far as I know) and I'd never noticed at all before this year.
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soxcentral		#5	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1122 09/11/11 3:11 PM Veteran Member	I guess you'd have to determine which side of the term 'breakout' means more to you - becoming a major prospect after being considered less than such (Middlebrooks, Xander), or rising from nowhere to become a prospect (Vazquez, Head). My vote went to Xander, partly since we've had so many hyped Latin prospects do very little in the past 5 years that my expectations were probably much lower than others.
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Veteran Member Posts: 2510 09/12/11 11:16 AM	In my opinion, I'd say Xander is the one who fits the criteria the least. He was pretty highly regarded coming into this year, with a ton of buzz generated in the fall last year. I certainly had my eye on him this year ... he may have exceeded expectations, but he didn't come from nowhere, and he wasn't considered a non-prospect by any means. He just did very well in his first year. The logic of him vaulting from nowhere could be used on almost any player playing his first full season of ball. I voted Vazquez, but I could see Head, possibly Middlebrooks since he really did take a leap.
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Plantier Forever		#7	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 187 09/15/11 12:42 AM Veteran Member	Brentz: Yes, he was a high draft pick but he did not do well his first year in the system (to put it politely). He was off the top 20 to start this year. But after mashing all year I think we can call him a "major prospect after previously being considered less than such".
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