Boston Red Sox Prospect One of Baseball America's Biggest Risers

There are few farm systems in baseball with a thinner group of position player prospects than the Boston Red Sox . After the graduations of Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer and Kristian Campbell, as well as an offseason trade that sent Jhostynxon Garcia to Pittsburgh, the Red Sox have seen their farm system depleted of nearly all their top hitting prospects, except for shortstop Franklin Arias. Luckily for Boston, Arias has a newfound power stroke that has made him one of the fastest-rising prospects in all of baseball.

In Baseball America's first update to its Top 100 prospect list of the 2026 season, Arias was one of the biggest risers in the sport. Arias entered the 2026 season as Baseball America's No. 46 prospect, seen as a plus defender at shortstop with a solid hitting tool.

Thanks to that new power stroke, Arias is doing everything he can to dispel that notion. ANOTHER homer for Franklin Arias on Thursday 🤯 pic. twitter.

com/W8CHwLmrMQ — Red Sox Player Development (@RedSoxPlayerDev) May 2, 2026 After getting a taste of the level at the end of 2025, the 20-year-old Arias was assigned to Double-A Portland at the outset of 2026, where he hit the ground running. Through 23 games with the Sea Dogs, Arias is hitting . 346/.