{"id":71535,"date":"2025-07-27T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71535"},"modified":"2025-07-27T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:39:31","slug":"red-sox-deliver-worrying-announcement-on-future-of-6-6-million-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71535","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Deliver Worrying Announcement on Future of $6.6 Million Rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Marcelo-Mayer-update.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Marcelo-Mayer-update.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Marcelo-Mayer-update.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Marcelo-Mayer-update.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Red Sox Deliver Worrying Announcement on Future of $6.6 Million Rookie\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo Mayer will nit be back in the Red Sox lineup anytime soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox will have an infield hole at second base for the indefinite future, based on statements by manager Alex Cora on Saturday. Cora gave an update on the condition of rookie Marcelo Mayer, who moved across the infield to take over primary second base duties when third baseman Alex Bregman returned from a 44-game stay on the injured list on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer took himself out of Wednesday\u2019s road game against the Philadelphia Phillies \u2014 which ended with an 11-inning, 9-8 Red Sox win \u2014 saying that he felt \u201ca tight grab\u201d in his right wrist, the same wrist he injured in 2022, his first full year in professional baseball.<\/p>\n<h2>Highest Red Sox Draft Pick in More Than 5 Decades<\/h2>\n<p>In 2021, the Red Sox made Mayer, out of Eastlake High School in Chula Vista, California, the No. 4 overall draft pick, signing him with a $6.6 million bonus.<\/p>\n<p>That made Mayer the highest Red Sox draft pick since 1967, when they took pitcher Mike Garman with the No. 3 pick. In those days a $55,000 bonus was enough the sign the No. 3 pick. Adjusting for inflation, that would be only a $529,000 bonus today.<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, the Red Sox put their 2021 first-rounder on the injured list for the first time in his Major League career, which was just 44 games old at the time.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Calling Mayer Injury a \u2018Sprain\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The exact nature of Mayer\u2019s wrist injury has not been revealed, however, other than that Mayer suffered a \u201csprain.\u201d On Saturday, Cora said that Mayer was still consulting \u201cspecialists and all that stuff,\u201d as quoted by beat reporter Christopher Smith of <em>MassLive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cora also had some more concerning news about Mayer, according to Smith\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not gonna play soon,\u201d Cora said. \u201cSo [we] have to make sure where we\u2019re at and what the course of action is going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sports medicine physician Jesse Morse, posting on his 137,000-follower social media account, had a depressing message for Red Sox fans.<\/p>\n<h2>Mayer Could End Season Early \u2014 Again<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going to like this but I think he\u2019s due for season-ending surgery to repair torn ligaments,\u201d Morse wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer was described, not surprisingly, as \u201cdejected\u201d over the injury by MLB.com Red Sox beat writer Ian Browne.<\/p>\n<p>If Morse\u2019s speculation proves correct, Mayer will see his season cut short by injury for the third straight year. In 2023 \u201cshoulder inflammation\u201d caused the Red Sox to shut down Mayer with 11 games remaining the Double-A season.<\/p>\n<h2>Injuries an Annual Problem For Top Prospect<\/h2>\n<p>The following year, Mayer was placed on the injured list August 1 due to a strain to the lumbar region of his lower back. Mayer was still at the Double-A level at the time, but was promoted to Triple-A Worcester as soon as he was activated.<\/p>\n<p>But he did not play for Worcester. Instead, the Red Sox sent Mayer to their training facility in Fort Myers, Florida, to continue his rehab for the back injury. Mayer did not play again until spring training. The Red Sox called him up to the big league club on May 24, following the injury to Bregman.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer\u2019s 2022 wrist injury also caused him to miss time, though not at the end of the season. When he was asked to compare his current wrist injury to the previous malady, Mayer demurred, saying that the previous injury happened \u201cso long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\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. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. 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