Red Sox Top Prospect Voting: Marcelo Mayer is the next big thing

Marcelo MayerUnlike most years we do this, there wasn’t a clear number one prospect for this year’s list, with two players having a fair claim to the title. Triston Casas, as we know, ended up getting the nod, and did so by what was frankly a surprising margin. That made the vote for number two fairly easy, and while this one was actually closer than I expected for a bit, ultimately Marcelo Mayer was able to pull away and take the number two slot with 56 percent of the votes.

Unlike Nick Yorke, the team’s previous first round pick who was also a middle infielder coming out of high school in California, Mayer was not really a pop up prospect who sort of came out of nowhere. Instead, the…