Fenway Farm Prospect Weekly: Godbout Goes Deep Four Times, Mullins Dominant at Double-A

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Fenway Farm Prospect Weekly covers the last 7 days of action for the Red Sox farm system.

Godbout's Power Week at Portland Complicates the Scouting Math

Henry Godbout (AA, SS, Rank: 8) went 10-for-22 with four home runs and six RBI across 22 plate appearances last week, including his first career multi-homer game on September 4. The power surge is eye-catching for a prospect whose scouting profile carries a 40 power grade and a bench projection, and it arrives at a level where he has now posted eight home runs in 84 plate appearances since arriving at Portland. That Double-A rate, paired with seven home runs at High-A earlier this season, gives him 15 combined in 268 plate appearances at three levels in 2026, a total that does not fit neatly into the "below-average power output" box the profile describes.

The complications are real, though. His 26.2 percent strikeout rate at Double-A is a jump from the 16.8 percent he posted at High-A, and the walk rate has slipped from 13.7 percent to 6.0 percent at the new level. He is swinging more aggressively, with contact rate dipping to 77.4 percent over his last 30 days, and pitchers will keep testing him with breaking stuff if he keeps selling out for power. The 55 hit tool is supposed to be the carrying attribute, and it can still be, but the current Portland stretch looks more pull-powered and less patient than what got him here. The honest answer is that four home runs in a week at Double-A as a 22-year-old utility-infield type is a meaningful data point, even if it does not rewrite the projection. A bench ceiling with real pop is more valuable than a bench ceiling without it, and this week at least raised the question of where the power grade actually belongs.

Mullins Posts His Best Outing of the Double-A Stretch

Hayden Mullins (AA, LHP, Rank: 24) was nearly untouchable last week: 5.2 innings, one hit, no runs, one walk, and 10 strikeouts against 20 batters faced, generating 17 swinging misses on 76 pitches. It was the sharpest he has looked all season at Portland, and it fits a month of sustained dominance that has been building in the background. Over his last 30 days at Double-A, he carries a 0.87 ERA across 20.2 innings with 31 strikeouts, a 35.6 percent strikeout rate, and a walk rate of 8.0 percent against batters faced. The command issues that define the profile, a 40 command grade and a seasonal walk rate of 12.6 percent at Portland, were mostly absent in this outing.

The broader season picture requires some honesty: a 4.15 ERA and 47 walks across 86.2 innings at Double-A is not a back-of-the-rotation starter line, and a brief Triple-A cup of coffee produced four walks in three innings. The projection as a multi-inning left-handed reliever makes more sense than a starting role when you look at the full body of work, because the fastball-slider combination is genuinely uncomfortable when the walk rate cooperates, and the changeup has not yet developed into a credible third pitch against upper-level lineups. What the last month does suggest is that when Mullins dials the walks down near the fringe-average range, the strikeout rate is legitimate enough to profile as a useful big-league arm. He posted a 34.0 percent strikeout rate at Double-A for the season; a walk rate closer to 8 or 9 percent rather than 12 or 13 makes that number actionable. Last week was the version of Mullins that justifies a closer look at the reliever outcome.

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