Blake Aubry Swihart

Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: April 3, 1992 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, US
High School: V Sue Cleveland HS (Rio Rancho, NM)

Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 1st round (26th) of the 2011 from V Sue Cleveland HS (Rio Rancho, NM).

• 5/23 BoSox Banter: Vazquez pounds four hits, continues to emerge as catching prospect: By Jeff Louderback When he was named 2011 Red Sox Minor League Co-Offensive Player of the Year, Ryan Lavarnway emerged as the...
• 5/15 Indians Baseball Insider: Closing Games Haunts Mudcats in Losing Streak: ZEBULON, N.C.-  On a beautiful night at Five County Stadium, Carolina Mudcats pitcher Jacob Lee challenged the...
• 5/15 BoSox Injection: Upcoming MLB Draft: What Positions Do The Sox Need To Fill?: About the only silver lining when you have a season in which your team becomes completely unhinged and finishes dead last is the...
• 5/14 Indians Baseball Insider: Mudcats narrowly fall 2-1: ZEBULON, N.C.- In a pitcher’s duel, the Salem Red Sox’s hitting came at just the right times to top the Carolina Mudcats...
• 5/12 BoSox Injection: Minor League Update: Barnes, De La Rosa Turning It Around: As a good year in the Red Sox farm system progresses, this week saw a turnaround from a couple of the slow starts that the Red...
• 5/10 BoSox Injection: Current Areas Of Concern For The 2013 Red Sox: Let me begin by saying that I’m not hitting the panic button. After one of the best starts in franchise history in April,...
• 5/7 BoSox Injection: The Red Sox and the Upcoming First-Year Player Draft.: With just under a month until the Major League Baseball draft, I thought it was time to look at who the Red Sox could, would and...
• 5/5 Red Sox Maineiacs: RSM Top Red Sox Prospects- May 2013 Edition: With the new season only one month old, there is not a ton of movement in our rankings from April.  A couple of Sea Dogs...

• 4/26 Fire Brand of the American League: Season Preview- Salem Red SoxWith three first round draft picks on their roster, Salem is stacked with top talent....
• 4/23 Replacement Level Red Sox Blog: Lining Up the Minors: What else to do on a beautiful summer day but look at the kiddie corps. I’ll be doing this at various times over the season...
• 4/14 BoSox Injection: Could Sox Land Big Fish in Stanton?: With the colossal trade that brought about the implosion of the 2012 Miami Marlins, it has been no secret that star Giancarlo...
• 4/6 Red Sox Maineiacs: RSM Top 12 Red Sox Prospects: As Red Sox Maineiacs did during the 2012 season, each month we will rate the Top 12 prospects in the Red Sox system. This list...
• 4/1 BoSox Injection: John’s Reaction To JBJ And Final Standings Prediction: For anybody who’s read my comments from other posts regarding this issue, you definitely know where I stand. To those of...

• 3/27 Talkin Sox with Dan: Observations From Fort Myers: From March 13-March 22, I was lucky enough to spend my vacation with my girlfriend, Meg, in Fort Myers. The last time we had...
• 3/17 BoSox Injection: Iglesias, Gomez Lead 9-2 Offensive Outburst Against Rays: The Red Sox continued their winning ways today with another solid win against the Rays. Getting the start was Alfredo Aceves,...
• 3/12 MLB Dirt: 2013 Boston Red Sox Top 16 Prospects: After seeing their farm system, once seen as a precious commodity, decline in recent years, Boston’s prospect pool is starting...
• 3/11 60ft6in.com: The legend of Jackie Bradley Junior is just beginning: If you took a vote of every member of Red Sox Nation who do you think they would want to be the starting left fielder in Yankee...

• 2/19 Red Sox Maineiacs: RSM Red Sox Prospects 26-50: Last fall we at RSM began the post season ranking of the Red Sox prospects with numbers 1 thru 25.  To recap this is the...
• 2/12 Motor City Bengals: MLB Farm System Rankings: #9 Boston Red Sox: It’s that time of year again. Time to give this prospect junkie his fix. Last year, I did farm system rankings for all of baseball,...
• 2/10 Release Points: 2013 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects: System Overview: Led by one of the game’s top prospects — shortstop Xander Bogaerts — the front office has revitalized...
• 2/7 SOX & Dawgs: Keith Law's 2013 Top 10 Red Sox Prospects: Continuing along with the Keith Law rankings as we catchup on the site comes his top 10 prospects for the Boston Red Sox in...

• 1/30 Red Sox Maineiacs: RSM Red Sox Prospects 26-50: Last fall we at RSM began the post season ranking of the Red Sox prospects with numbers 1 thru 25.  To recap this is the...
• 1/26 60ft6in.com: 2015 Red Sox homegrown roster: It has been reported that when Theo Epstein ran the Red Sox, one of his goals was to have a team all made from homegrown talent....
• 1/21 Seedlings to Stars: 2013 Seedlings to Stars Top Prospects: #101-115: It’s time once again to start unveiling the top prospects heading into the 2013 season across Major League Baseball. Keep in...
• 1/11 Baseball News Source: Boston Red Sox: Top Prospects for 2013: Boasting a well-stocked farm system rich with potential impact players who are slated to open the 2013 season at Double-A or Triple-A,...
• 1/8 Fire Brand of the American League: 5 Sox Hitting Prospects to Track in 2013These 5 prospects in the lower levels of the Sox system have the potential for big seasons in 2013....

• 12/31 Baseball News Source: Boston Red Sox: Trades That Could Be Made Before Spring Training: Red Sox GM Ben Cherington has refused to part with promising prospects, but that could change… Stocked with an abundance...
• 12/17 BoSox Banter: A look at Red Sox prospect rankings from three sites: By Jeff Louderback In 2007 and 2008 – when the Red Sox won a World Series title and reached Game Seven of the American League...

• 11/21 BoSox Banter: Red Sox add prospects to 40-man roster, delete fringe players: By Jeff Louderback Faced with a crunch for 40-man roster space, the Red Sox added six players to the roster to protect them from...
• 11/10 BoSox Banter: Red Sox reach two-year deal with catcher David Ross: By Jeff Louderback The catching tandem in Boston will be different in 2013. According to FoxSports.com, the Red Sox have signed...

• 10/9 SOX & Dawgs: Two Red Sox Farmhands Ranked in Baseball America's Top 20 South Atlantic League Prospects: Baseball America is busy right now putting together its top 20 prospects lists by league now that the minor league baseball...
• 10/9 SOX & Dawgs: Two Red Sox Farmhands Ranked in Baseball America's Top 20 South Atlantic League Prospects: Baseball America is busy right now putting together its top 20 prospects lists by league now that the minor league baseball...

• 8/31 BoSox Injection: Taking A Look At The 2012 Draftees’ First Seasons: The MLB draft may not be as po**** as the NFL or NBA drafts, but it still plays a huge part in the future of a franchise and with...
• 8/2 Red Sox Maineiacs: RSM Red Sox Top 12 Prospects-August Edition: As August 1st has rolled around this will be our last in season ranking for the top 12 prospects in the Red Sox system.  The...

• 7/26 Baseball News Source: Red Sox Have Trade Chips For Pitching But Will They Use Them?: At 48-49, it is difficult to classify the Red Sox as a legitimate post-season threat. Sure, they are just four games out in the...
• 7/24 BoSox Injection: The Boston Red Sox All-Minor League Team: Ever since I really got into the Red Sox and major league baseball in general, one part of baseball that’s really fascinated...
• 7/18 BoSox Injection: With 2 Jokers, Sox need an Ace for Wild Card Pot–or they should fold now: The abject failure of their #1 and #2 rotation Jokers, The Lester and The Josher, forces the hand of the Red Sox to “go...
• 7/9 BoSox Injection: Ben’s Gaping “Ace” hole…Show them your “package”–Get “King Felix”:   It took a cogent comment by a loyal reader to identify the exact location of the problem in the anatomy of the team: Jon...
• 7/6 Fire Brand of the American League: Cafardo Mailbag: The King Felix Fetish EditionRed Sox Nation has a fetish...and the only cure is more King Felix....

• 6/29 BoSox Injection: Dempster Diving: How Much is ONE extra WIN worth?:   Rather than obtaining a pitcher with a long-term contract [like John Danks], who could quickly go from great to garbage,...
• 6/23 BoSox Injection: YOUK TRADE TODAY: WHITE SOX OR DODGERS…: The Youk will be traded today to either the White Sox or the Dodgers, says the smart money on the street.  You can get 2-1 odds...
• 6/7 Full Spectrum Baseball: Organizational Outlook: Boston Red Sox: Up this week are the Boston Red Sox (keep in mind we are doing this alphabetically -- American League first and then National...

• 5/10 60ft6in.com: Barnes Better Than Roger: How do you know when it’s time to bring up a young pitcher? If a pitcher has three years of NCAA baseball under his belt,...
• 5/4 Fragile Freddy's: Minor League Update: With the Sox off on Thursday night  but starting a stretch of 20 games in 20 days Friday I figure this is a good time to...

• 4/30 MLB Dirt: 2011 MLB Draft First Round Player Update: Part 2: The other day I posted part one of the article as I took a look at how the top fifteen picks in 2011’s MLB First Year Player...
• 4/22 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Express: April 22: Top stories Fan promotes recycling in Texas: Today, fans in Texas can go to a game at Houston or Corpus Christi and help raise...
• 4/14 The Baseball Page: 2012 Top 20 Prospects – Boston Red Sox:   It’s prospect season again. I’ve had my rankings listed on team pages, but have been horrible about keeping those up...

• 3/30 Bus League Baseball: Bus Leagues Top 100 Prospects: 76-100: Everyone loves lists, so I tried my hand at creating a top 100 list for the upcoming season. As far as I can tell, I’ve only...

• 2/13 MLBTradeRumors: AL East Links: Vlad, Theo, Red Sox: One AL East player has avoided arbitration in designated hitter David Ortiz, and another is close in reliever Casey Janssen.  The...
• 2/11 Fire Brand of the American League: Taking A Look At Keith Law’s Top 100 Prospect List: On Thursday, ESPN analyst Keith Law released his annual ranking of the top 100 prospects in the game. Before ESPN, Law had a job...
• 2/10 SOX & Dawgs: Two Red Sox Minor Leaguers Named To Keith Law's 2012 Top 100 MLB Prospects: It's that time of year where the various media entities who cover Major League Baseball and the minors leagues put out of their...
• 2/9 SOX & Dawgs: Two Red Sox Minor Leaguers Named To Keith Law's 2012 Top 100 MLB Prospects: It's that time of year where the various media entities who cover Major League Baseball and the minors leagues put out of their...

• 1/26 Fire Brand of the American League: Analyzing MLB’s Top 100 Prospect List: In case you missed it earlier today, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com released his top 100 prospect list.  Whether you’re a prospect...

• 12/5 MLB Dirt: 2012 Boston Red Sox Top 16 Prospects: The Boston Red Sox prospects were possibly the toughest team for me to rank. They are a very deep system with most of its high-ceiling...

• 11/30 Fire Brand of the American League: Jim Callis of Baseball America Talks Prospects: Jim Callis, Executive Editor of Baseball America, recently agreed to sit down and answer a few questions about Red Sox prospects....