Baseball America came out with their top 10 prospects in the Sox organization today, and to be real honest with you, this shit gets me excited. A lot of people look at prospects and take the “call me when they are in the majors” approach. Not me, growing up 15 minutes away from the Pawtucket Red Sox, prospects have always been a really exciting part of the game for me. But I digress, more on the list.

Here is the thing, not a snowball’s chance in hell that all these guys work out, never gonna happen. That makes it exciting and this list has some names on it to get pretty excited about. Three new draft pick ups cracked the top ten, lead by catcher Blake Swihart. The other two are Pitcher Matt Barnes and Outfielder Jackie Bradley. I love Swihart and I think the kid has a great chance to be a real deal big league catcher in a few years. I was a little shocked to see him ahead of Barnes, a guy who was drawing comparisons to Verlander (please turn out like Verlander).

Not a big shock to see Will Middlebrooks and Xander Bogaerts top this list, Middlebrooks who I have previously said should be in the lineup in Boston by the end of the year without any unforseen injury. Anthony Ranaudo come in as the highest rated pitcher. While working his way up to Salem A+ ball last year, Ranaudo struggled a little bit when he got there. More time at this level and he should be ready to move upward again.

Probably the most interesting, and maybe crazy, part of the article is the 2015 Red Sox line up projection that looks like this,

Catcher: Blake Swihart

First Base: Adiran Gonzalez

Second Base: Dustin Pedroia

Third Base: Will Middlebrooks

Short Stop: Jose Iglesias

Left Field: Carl Crawford

Center Field: Jacoby Ellsbury

Right Field: Xander Bogaerts

DH: Kevin Youkilis

Besides the fact that I wouldn’t mind trading Youkilis this year and moving Lavarnway into the DH role and I don’t have much hope for Jacoby Ellsbury being on this team in 2015, on paper this team is really good.

This is why prospects are fun, yes it is stupid to look at a 2015 season when so many things can change but hey, I don’t care.