Roniel Raudes
Roniel Antonio Raudes Meza (born January 16, 1998) is a Nicaraguan professional baseball pitcher for the New Jersey Jackals of the Frontier League. Listed at and , he bats and throws right-handed. Biography Boston Red Sox The Red Sox selected Raudes in the 2014 MLB International Draft, signing him a bonus of $250,000. Raudes throws an fastball with a maximum speed of . According to Red Sox scouts, he should throw harder once he adds some muscle to his skinny frame and physically matures without losing much athleticism. He also has a pair of promising secondary pitches, with his downer curveball at presently ranking ahead of his fading changeup. Raudes has been known to use an unorthodox pitching delivery motion. Aside from Anderson Espinoza, Raudes had the best season of any Red Sox minor league pitcher in 2015. Only 17 years old, Raudes led the rookie-level Dominican Summer League with a very significant strikeout-to-walk ratio (63-to-3) in innings, which he concluded with a 3–0 record in four rookie-level Gulf Coast League starts, while allowing two earned runs for a 0.90 ERA in 20 innings. He was selected to the DSL All-Star Team and also was ranked by Baseball America as