6/10/2018-The Boston Red Sox have signed former Trinidad Triggers player Johnny Bladel. He will report to AA Portland Sea Dogs.

Johnny began his professional career with the Trinidad Triggers in 2014. Johnny was then sent to the Amarillo Gold Sox in the American Association at the end of the Triggers Season. From that point on Johnny played in the Can Am League in 2015, 2016 and 2017 with Sussex and the New Jersey Jackals. Bladel won the batting title in 2017 hitting .345

In 2018 Johnny signed with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic league where he hit .341