Marcelo MayerThe recruit season is over. The young person has been on the shelf due to a wwet sprain since the end of July, and now manager Alex Cora Told journalists (including Christopher Smith de Masslive) that the inner field player would undergo an end -of -season operation on his sick wrist. Surgery is delivered with a three -month recovery period, so it should be ready for 2026 spring training.
Mayer, 22, has entered the season as a consensual prospect of the top-20 in sport. Selected fourth by the Red Sox in 2021, Mayer’s climb on the minor league scale was the victim of injuries with injuries, but he made his debut in Triple-A and Big League this year despite these obstacles. He struck a solid .271 / .247 / .472 in 43 games with Worcester this year, but escaped a little in the majors, with an oblique bar lower than the average .228 / .272 / .402 (79 WRC +) and a rate of withdrawal of 30.1%. He posted these figures while dividing the time between the second and the third goal as well as the stop stop at the level of the big league, most of his work coming in the hot corner while Alex Bregman was on the list of injured earlier this year.
Now that Mayer’s campaign in 2025 has ended abrupt because of his sick wrist, he is sure to say that the young person did not have the rooted campaign that he and the Red Sox surely hoped. It’s not a surprise, of course. While some high -level talents (such as his teammate Roman Anthony) Immediately bring the big leagues, it has become more and more common for the best prospects for the game to fight powerfully at the start of their career due to the growing skills gap between Triple-A and the majors. For Mayer, it can only be a good thing, and will leave it better equipped to have an impact on the Big League in 2026.
Fortunately for the Red Sox, they were able to do very well without Mayer producing a high level. Bregman (156 WRC +) obtained his third sign of a career star in career and changed the situation for Boston’s programming on the third goal, while History of Trevor Rebounded after years of campaigns marked by injuries to be an almost average daily stop (98 WRC +). This solidified the left side of the interior field of the club, and while the struggles of Mayer and Kristian Campbell made the second base in a little question, Super Utility Man Ceddanne Rafaela settled in Keystone admirably in the middle of a decent offensive season which is its own (97 WRC +). Another young Kristian Campbell is also available to help Chip in the second goal, although he had trouble after the start of the year and is currently obtaining regular representatives in Triple-A.
For the future next year, the figure of the Red Sox has an embarrassment of wealth on the positional side of things. Bregman seems more and more likely to withdraw from his contract and return to the free agency, but even to put it aside the feedback from Mayer and Triston Casas should give the team a complete program on paper with Campbell and Rafaela capable of moving between the inner field and the external field as needed. If Bregman remains to opt in his agreement or end up being signed or replaced in a free agency, the figure of the Red Sox has more players than positions to play them between their solid regulars and the young unproven players like Mayer and Campbell. Players love Jarren Duran And Masataka Yoshida have often been the subject of commercial rumors over the years due to this imminent Logjam, and although no offer has gathered to this point that figures to remain a scenario surrounding the club went to the offseason.
