{"id":52864,"date":"2025-05-04T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52864"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:57:30","slug":"mlb-delivers-major-announcement-on-red-sox-60-million-rookie-team-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52864","title":{"rendered":"MLB Delivers Major Announcement on Red Sox $60 Million Rookie, Team Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MLB-announcement-rookie-Kristian-Campbell_f99489.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MLB-announcement-rookie-Kristian-Campbell_f99489.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MLB-announcement-rookie-Kristian-Campbell_f99489.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MLB-announcement-rookie-Kristian-Campbell_f99489.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"MLB Delivers Major Announcement on Red Sox $60 Million Rookie, Team Responds\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox&#8217; Kristian Campbell is AL Rookie of the Month for April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kristian Campbell, who in less than two years rose from a fourth-round draft pick out of Georgia Tech to starting second baseman for the pennant-contending Boston Red Sox, has had a month of April that could only be called, in his own words, \u201clife-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was how the 22-year-old Campbell described the eight-year, $60 million contract extension the Red Sox bestowed on the Marietta, Georgia, on April 5 \u2014 after he had played just eight Major League baseball games.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell made quite an impression in those eight games, batting .423 with an eye-popping 1.323 OPS including two home runs and four doubles. He reached base safely by either a hit or a walk not only in his first eight games, but in his first 17.<\/p>\n<h2>MLB Announces Extraordinary Honor for Campbell<\/h2>\n<p>Campbell barely slowed down until May 1, when he finally was held out of a game due to \u201crib discomfort,\u201d apparently straining the muscles around his ribcage on a check swing the day before. As of Saturday, Campbell was still out of the Red Sox lineup, and was listed as \u201cday to day\u201d according to manager Alex Cora.<\/p>\n<p>The injury, which the Red Sox believe to be a minor one, has been the only blemish on Campbell\u2019s 32-game career so far. On Friday, Major League Baseball made a major announcement in recognition of Campbell\u2019s achievements in the month of April \u2014 and in late March when the Red Sox played their first five contests.<\/p>\n<p>MLB named Campbell the American League Rookie of the Month, in the May 1 announcement.<\/p>\n<p>MLB also named Luisangel Acu\u00f1a of the New York Mets National League Rookie of the Month.<\/p>\n<p>In betting odds listed Saturday by Fox Sports, Campbell was the heavy favorite to win AL Rookie of the Year, at +170. Jasson Dominguez of the New York Yankees was a distant second betting favorite at +850.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell finished the month of April with a .301 batting average and .902 OPS, with four home runs and eight doubles among his 31 hits. On the basepaths, the Red Sox rookie \u2014 who along with Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer (both of whom are still at Triple-A Worcester) was one of Boston\u2019s \u201cBig Three\u201d top prospects \u2014 stole two bases while being caught once.<\/p>\n<p>The team did not let the MLB announcement go by unnoticed, pinning its own response to the top of the official Red Sox feed on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1 month in the big leagues: 1 Rookie of the Month,\u201d the Red Sox post read.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Have History of Rookies of the Year<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Sox have a long history of rookie star players. Their most recent Rookie of the Year was, like Campbell, a second baseman \u2014 Dustin Pedroia, who won the honor in 2007. The Red Sox went on to win their second World Series of the 21st century that year.<\/p>\n<p>The following season, Pedrioia won another major honor \u2014 AL MVP.<\/p>\n<p>But 33 years earlier, the Red Sox had a rookie who also won both awards \u2014 in the same year. Centerfielder Fred Lynn became the first player in MLB history to accomplish that double feat, in 1975 \u2014 a year in which the Red Sox went to the World Series, only to fall in seven games to the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>No one else won both awards in one season until Ichiro Suzuki did it in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Other Red Sox Rookies of the Year since the award was first handed out in 1947 have been Walt Dropo in 1950, Don Schwall in 1961, Carlton Fisk in 1972 and Nomar Garciaparra in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. Vankin is also the author of five nonfiction books on a variety of topics, as well as nine graphic novels including most recently &#8220;Last of the Gladiators&#8221; published by Dynamite Entertainment. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Red Sox News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox rookie sensation Kristian Campbell has had a &#8220;life changing&#8221; month, capped off by a huge announcement from the MLB league office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MLB Delivers Major Announcement on Red Sox $60 Million Rookie, Team Responds - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52864\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MLB Delivers Major Announcement on Red Sox $60 Million Rookie, Team Responds - 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