Kristian Campbell Makes Opening Day Red Sox Roster

He may play some LF, especially if Abreu is taking some time off, but he should play almost all 2B.

I'm glad for him. What a meteoric rise to the bigs!

9 hours ago, Larry Cook said:

Congratulations to Campbell!! I hope he has a productive and amazing at least first 6 years to his career!!!

Just pray the Red Sox can still control him in 2031!

(I'll be happy if I can still control the TV remote by then)

Further evidence of the irrelevance of spring training stats

46 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Just pray the Red Sox can still control him in 2031!

(I'll be happy if I can still control the TV remote by then)

But you’ve given up on the bladder?

Just now, Hugh2 said:

It's been obvious all offseason that the Sox wanted him to have the job, I thought he might be playing his way out early this spring.  I think he will be fine, I'll be interested to see how he is performing come august, I won't complain if he Dustin Pedrioa's it out of the gate but I think he's going to be great once he settles in. 

 

Here's to hoping he nets them a pick amongst many other good things hopefully to come for the team. 

Advance scouts are already sharing Cliff Notes with pitching coaches: Campbell has shown he can go the other way with authority, but on pitches middle-in angles his entire body out of the box trying to pull... Smoke him, high and inside.

57 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

The stats may be irrelevant but the underlying performance isn't, necessarily.  They liked what they saw of his fielding and saw improvement in his plate approach.

Exactly.  The stats were irrelevant and they liked other criteria…

I know I've been harping on the team control thing, but I have a question: If Campbell is sent down to AAA for a couple months, this season, does he still gain another year of control?

I'm not advocating that happens, just wondering...

58 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

In old friend news.

He got hurt, yesterday. I hope he stays off the IL.

10 minutes ago, Nick said:

Technically, it's how many DAYS he spends on the major league roster. I believe the magic number is 174 days (just going by memory). ML baseball season lasts 187 days. (again going by memory)

SORRY MVP 78. YOU ARE CORRECT ALSO....I MISREAD YOUR POST. YOU ARE SAYING THE SAME THING. YOU DID NOT SAY HOW MANY GAMES THE PLAYER PLAYED. MY BAD.

172 days on active roster, or injury list = 1 yr of service time.

58 minutes ago, Nick said:

I love this move. We add a very good player (he will be), another versatile, athletic player to the mix.

Campbell 6 yrs (2B)

Wong 4 yrs (C)

Casas 4 yrs (1B)

Abreu 5 yrs (RF)

Rafael 7 yrs (CF)

Devers 9 yrs (DH)

Story 3 yrs (SS)

Duran 4 yrs (LF)

Romy 4 yrs (utility)

Hamilton 5 yrs (utility)

Narvaez 6 yrs (C)

We also have Mayer and Anthony waiting......Mayer is one injury to Story from moving up.

Our positional roster is set up pretty well for foreseeable future.

The only everyday players who loses team control before 3 years are Bregman (opt outs after 2025 & 2026) and Refsnyder (after 2025.) While Ref is a valuable batter vs LHPs, his defense is not good. We have Anthony in the wings, which should be an upgrade. (JH Garcia may be in the picture by 2026.) Losing Bregman will hurt, and we should not think about moving Devers back to 3B. Bt the time Bregman leaves, we may very well have an in-house solution as we decide who best can play SS, 2B and 3B among Story, Campbell, Mayer and subs like DHam, Romy & Grissom. (Arias and Romero may be knocking on the door by 2026 and 2027.)

Yoshida has 3 years, too, but he lacks a clear roster slot, going forward, especially if Devers stays at DH.

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

What's the difference between the active roster and the major league roster? 

An active roster used to be when the line-up card bounced off the dugout corkboard from vibrations, after Big Papi smashed the bullpen phone with his Mizuno. Or was that a Rawlings.