MLB Writer Impressed With Rapid Red Sox Prospect Growth

The Boston Red Sox arrive at an intriguing spot in 2025 with the benefits of a farm system restoration project.

Boston went from the league’s bottom-ranked system at the end of the 2019 season to among the top in the sport in a five-year window. Highly touted names such as Marcelo Mayer and Roman Anthony lead the youth movement that can reach the MLB level and boost the Red Sox in 2025.

MLB.com’s Sam Dykstra noted Boston among the most improved farm systems in baseball, even after trading away four notable prospects in the blockbuster trade that brought Garrett Crochet to the Red Sox.

“Boston’s player-development group (and the player himself) deserves major credit for helping Kristian Campbell go from a non-Top 30 prospect in the system to a Top 10 overall prospect in all of baseball,” Dykstra wrote. “… The group still claims four Top 100 prospects, including 19-year-old standout Franklin Arias, and another teenager, Yoeilin Cespedes, could join in 2025. Boston still lacks standout arms, but the pitching department has taken a nice jump forward in recent years, so keep an eye on leaps from that group next season.”

Boston enters the year with a player like Campbell competing for a roster spot and multiple other prospects a few months away with potential midseason reinforcements in store for the Red Sox.