It’s no secret how important Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer are to the future of the Boston Red Sox.
All three players appear ready to debut at different points of the 2025 season for the Red Sox. The prospect trio is the talk of spring training as Boston hopes to end a three-year postseason drought with the youth movement, plus the addition of external stars in Alex Bregman and Garrett Crochet.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan penned an extensive column on the prospect group Wednesday and attached a lofty accolade of “best position-playing-prospect trio in a generation” on the cusp of their MLB introductions.
Passan spent time in the Red Sox hitting facility with the trio and wrote about how Boston’s extensive environment of embracing organization philosophies surrounding hard contact in the air impacted the three youngsters.
“Here, Campbell, Anthony and Mayer are in the middle of everything, appropriate for what their future holds,” Passan wrote. “They’re learning modern hitting philosophy, applying it in an array of competitions that aim to turn their tools into skills, jamming to Bachata and Reggaeton and rap and rock, talking immense amounts of trash. On a small desk inside Cage 4 sit two binders outlining the Red Sox’s hitting philosophy: one in English and one in Spanish. These binders outline what the organization’s hitting coaches refer to as its Core Four tenets: swing decisions, bat speed, bat-to-ball skill and ball flight.”
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Campbell has a real chance to break camp with the Red Sox while Anthony and Mayer won’t be too far behind when the 2025 regular season begins.
