Ryan Pressly (pictured, left) signed out of high school and faired well as a starter in the Gulf Coast League, Short-Season Lowell, and Low A Greenville. One signed, one didn't, but they both ended up with stints in San Diego, now reside on opposite sides of Chicago, and are among the game's best. 246/.380/.468 and earning a four-year, $70-million deal from the Chicago White Sox this offseason, cementing his status as one of the best catchers in the game. 790 OPS over four years, very good for a catcher. He was moved to the Dodgers, where he put up a. San Diego got him to the majors midway through his first year and he struggled in a different kind of way-in 2013, he was suspended for 50 games for an elevated testosterone level, then tore both his MCL and ACL. He was selected 12th overall by the Reds in 2010 and, just like Rizzo, was on national Top 100 prospect rankings prior to the 2011 season and was traded to San Diego, albeit before the 2012 season. Grandal did not sign, instead opting to develop at the University of Miami, where by his junior year he was a member of Team USA and a First-Team All-American putting up video game numbers, hitting.
He was one of two centerpieces, along with Casey Kelly, in the trade that landed the Red Sox first baseman Adian Gonzalez. He also got attention from the San Diego Padres, who now had former Red Sox front office members Jed Hoyer and Jason McLeod running things. 800 at both Salem and Portland in 2010, he started getting national attention, ranking as the 75th best prospect in the game by Baseball America entering the 2011 season. He then kept up that pace in Salem to finish the year, with a. 298/.365/.494 over the first half of the 2009 season as a 19-year-old at Greenville in his return from Hodgkin's Lymphoma, treatment for which cost him almost all of the 2008 season.
#2007 RED SOX ROSTER CRACKED#
He first cracked the Top 10 after hitting. Rizzo was selected in the sixth round out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and signed for $325,000. These two players chose different paths after being selected in 2007, but shared a lot in common in their rise to be All-Stars. The Red Sox just missed the rare chance to get two stars at their respective positions out of one draft, first baseman Anthony Rizzo (pictured, top right) and catcher Yasmani Grandal.
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