Boston Red Sox prospect, once a Top 100 who’s still only 21, homers twice

Red Sox center field prospect Miguel Bleis belted two home runs to lead High-A Greenville 7-2 over Rome on Thursday.

Bleis drove in three runs and scored three runs.

Bleis entered 2023 ranked No. 88 on Baseball America’s Top 100 list. But surgery in June 2023 for a left shoulder subluxation limited him to just 31 games that year.

He entered 2024 spring training in great shape, gaining 33 pounds of productive weight and muscle during his rehab but he batted just .220 with a .303 on-base percentage, .354 slugging percentage and .657 OPS in 95 games (429 plate appearances) between Low-A Salem and Greenville.

Bleis is still young. He turned 21 on March 1.

He struggled early this season but he now has his slash line up to .253/.331 /487/.818. He’s tied for second among Red Sox minor leaguers in home runs with nine. He also has six doubles, one triple, 11 steals, 35 RBIs and 33 runs in 40 games (169 plate appearances) for Greenville.

The Dominican Republic native has gone 15-for-44 (.341) in his past 12 games.

MassLive ranked him Boston’s No. 11 prospect entering 2025.

Other Red Sox minor league notes from Thursday:

~ Blaze Jordan went 2-for-4 with two doubles, two RBIs, one run and one strikeout in Triple-A Worcester’s 9-6 win over Rochester. The 22-year-old first baseman/third baseman is 5-for-12 with a homer, four doubles, four RBIs, five runs, one walk and two strikeouts in his first three games for Worcester since his promotion from Double-A Portland.

~ Jhostynxon Garcia (nicknamed The Password) tripled in Worcester’s win. The 21-year-old outfielder has at least one hit in 12 of his 13 games since his promotion to Worcester. The Athletics’s Keith Law recently ranked him baseball’s No. 46 prospect on his top-50 MLB prospect rankings.

~ Allan Castro (MassLive’s No. 17 Red Sox prospect) is heating up. He went 2-for-4 with two walks and a strikeout in Portland’s 8-6 loss to Hartford. The 22-year-old outfielder is 7-for-16 with a homer, double, three RBIs, two runs, two walks, two strikeouts and one steal in four games during June.

~ Red Sox rehabbing pitcher Chris Murphy threw a perfect sixth inning for Portland (strikeout swinging, two groundouts). The 27-year-old lefty has thrown 4 ⅓ scoreless innings, allowing two hits and two walks while striking out seven in four games on his rehab assignment. He underwent Tommy John surgery in April 2024.