Recently named the top third base prospect in baseball by MLB Pipeline, as fellow BoSox Injection author Daniel Cassese wrote about, Rafael Devers is not expected to make his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox in 2017.
Just 20 years old, the raw slugger put the wraps on his first season in High-A ball with the Salem Red Sox. Despite his age and inexperience, there’s still hope and precedent for Devers to make a late-2017 splash in the big leagues.
We saw it before—in 2013 with a young prospect named Xander Bogaerts.