Jarren Duran seems like he is going to end up playing plenty of baseball this winter.
Los Criollos de Caguas of the Puerto Rico Winter League announced that the Red Sox' top outfield prospect will be playing for the club this season.
The league traditionally begins in the middle of November.
Managing Caguas will be Red Sox coach Ramon Vazquez. The general manager for the team is Alex Cora's brother-in-law Jesus Feliciano.
Duran is coming off a two-month stint at the Red Sox' alternate site in which he was one of the camp's biggest offensive stars, putting himself in position to compete for a major league roster spot next season.
“He had an unbelievable offensive camp,” said PawSox/WooSox manager Billy McMillon.”Stole a ton of bases, hit a lot of home runs. Impacted the baseball hard day in and day out. I think he continues to get better in the outfield and as that continues to get better I think that’s going to help clear the path for him. He’s OK. He’s solid. But you can see there is some room for improvement there and we did some things working on footwork and routes to the ball and he kind of cleaned that up a little bit. To me, the question is can he do that consistently and if he hit a lull with his offense is he going to stay as positive as he was all camp. I never saw him down during the camp. He hit really well for the entirety of the camp. He’s a very intriguing, very interesting guy.”
