Red Sox/MLB 2025 Off-Season Hot Stove II - Who’s at Third?
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BostonBob
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And speaking of Red Sox prospects......
from espn.com:
Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer could soon be fixtures in Boston's lineup -- and the test case for a groundbreaking approach to hitting.
Inside the batting cages at the Boston Red Sox's spring training complex, where the future of hitting is playing out in real time, the best trio of position prospects in a generation blossomed.
Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer have spent hundreds of hours in the building, rotating around its 10 tunnels, though their best work always seems to happen in Cage 4, right inside the main entrance. When they walk through the door, underneath a sign with a Ted Williams quote in big, capital letters -- "WE'RE GOING TO LEARN HOW TO DO TWO THINGS ... WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT HARD AND WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT IN THE AIR" -- they enter a hitting laboratory. Every cage is equipped with a HitTrax that gives them real-time batted-ball data. Trash cans house an array of training bats -- overweight and underweight, long and short, skinny. A Trajekt robot, capable of replicating every pitch thrown in the major leagues over the past half-decade, is joined by a dozen other standard pitching machines. Exit velocity leaderboards dot the walls.
Here, Campbell, Anthony and Mayer are in the middle of everything, appropriate for what their future holds. 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.
As pitchers have leveraged baseball's sabermetric revolution into designer offerings and a sportwide velocity jump, hitting has fallen behind. Batting average and weighted on-base average (a metric that measures productivity at the plate) are at low points over the past half-century. Pitchers regularly flummox hitters. The Red Sox believe they can bridge the gap. And the new big three -- a nickname that was originally given to Mayer, Anthony and Kyle Teel, the catching prospect at the heart of the trade that brought ace Garrett Crochet to Boston over the winter -- are the philosophy's beta test.
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from espn.com:
Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer could soon be fixtures in Boston's lineup -- and the test case for a groundbreaking approach to hitting.
Inside the batting cages at the Boston Red Sox's spring training complex, where the future of hitting is playing out in real time, the best trio of position prospects in a generation blossomed.
Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer have spent hundreds of hours in the building, rotating around its 10 tunnels, though their best work always seems to happen in Cage 4, right inside the main entrance. When they walk through the door, underneath a sign with a Ted Williams quote in big, capital letters -- "WE'RE GOING TO LEARN HOW TO DO TWO THINGS ... WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT HARD AND WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT IN THE AIR" -- they enter a hitting laboratory. Every cage is equipped with a HitTrax that gives them real-time batted-ball data. Trash cans house an array of training bats -- overweight and underweight, long and short, skinny. A Trajekt robot, capable of replicating every pitch thrown in the major leagues over the past half-decade, is joined by a dozen other standard pitching machines. Exit velocity leaderboards dot the walls.
Here, Campbell, Anthony and Mayer are in the middle of everything, appropriate for what their future holds. 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.
As pitchers have leveraged baseball's sabermetric revolution into designer offerings and a sportwide velocity jump, hitting has fallen behind. Batting average and weighted on-base average (a metric that measures productivity at the plate) are at low points over the past half-century. Pitchers regularly flummox hitters. The Red Sox believe they can bridge the gap. And the new big three -- a nickname that was originally given to Mayer, Anthony and Kyle Teel, the catching prospect at the heart of the trade that brought ace Garrett Crochet to Boston over the winter -- are the philosophy's beta test.
Inside the Red Sox's plan to revolutionize hitting -- and the three young stars at the center of it
Kristian Campbell, Marcelo Mayer and Roman Anthony could soon be fixtures in Boston's lineup -- and the test case for a groundbreaking approach at the plate.
EverettMike
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Just thought of a truly horrible joke:
What do you call a Red Sox pinch hitter who loves French fries?
Bernie Carbohydrate
What do you call a Red Sox pinch hitter who loves French fries?
Bernie Carbohydrate
BostonBob
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Boston Globe notes today
The 25-year-old righthander threw 20 pitches of live batting practice at JetBlue Park, striking out Connor Wong, Alex Bregman, and Carlos Narváez, before retiring Rafael Devers on a fly ball.
Mata’s fastball sat at 97 miles per hour and hit 98, raising the eyebrows of the Sox executives who were present.
Once the team’s top pitching prospect, Mata spent last year on the injured list, was designated for assignment Nov. 19, then returned to the organization on a minor league contract in December.
Mata was on the 40-man roster from 2021-24. He missed the ’21 season recovering from Tommy John surgery, then pitched only 133⅔ innings over the next three seasons because of various injuries.
He arrived at camp this season with a calf strain that put him behind the other pitchers by a few weeks.
Mata is likely to open the season with Triple A Worcester.
“We’ll see where it takes us with him,” Cora said last week. “He had a lot of ability.”
Mata on the mound
In Fort Myers, the reclamation of Bryan Matagained momentum.The 25-year-old righthander threw 20 pitches of live batting practice at JetBlue Park, striking out Connor Wong, Alex Bregman, and Carlos Narváez, before retiring Rafael Devers on a fly ball.
Mata’s fastball sat at 97 miles per hour and hit 98, raising the eyebrows of the Sox executives who were present.
Once the team’s top pitching prospect, Mata spent last year on the injured list, was designated for assignment Nov. 19, then returned to the organization on a minor league contract in December.
Mata was on the 40-man roster from 2021-24. He missed the ’21 season recovering from Tommy John surgery, then pitched only 133⅔ innings over the next three seasons because of various injuries.
He arrived at camp this season with a calf strain that put him behind the other pitchers by a few weeks.
Mata is likely to open the season with Triple A Worcester.
“We’ll see where it takes us with him,” Cora said last week. “He had a lot of ability.”
There’s no joking in baseball but if there was this works
BostonBob
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Morris Wanchuk
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Loving what I am seeing from Bregman and Mayer so far. Also Story has looked good.
Imagine for a second that Story has a great year and opts out? That would be amazing for this team long term.
Imagine for a second that Story has a great year and opts out? That would be amazing for this team long term.
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
That happens and it means they had an amazing season, so a win-win-win-win
Morris Wanchuk
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Agreed.
Bregman opts out, Story opts out, Yoshida plays well and is dealt. You have short term success with the ability to re-make the team very quickly after. IMO, in this short sample size I like breslow better than Chaim on the pro talent evaluation and execution.
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
I still see almost no difference between them except one drafted hitters and one drafted pitchers. The only difference is I think ownership finally let their GM sign someone for big money, and even then it was a relatively low risk move compared to what other big market teams do.
(I'm always and forever a TINSTAAPP guy so I prefer drafting hitters.)
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