#Marcelo Mayer

Plenty of Boston Red Sox fans are just moving on from their grief over the franchise trading away superstar Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020. Well, all of those fun feelings are resurfacing on Thursday because the Red Sox are back at it again. Not only is Boston in the midst of an embarrassingly bad offseason, but the club just took…

Let's call it two years, 11 months. On Feb. 4, 2020, the initial (and better) version of the Mookie Betts trade broke. An organizational failure spanning three baseball bosses, and a punt to the groin that fundamentally changed how a sizable percentage of people viewed the Red Sox. By Jan. 4, 2023, their likes had only grown, and the snowball of…

The Boston Red Sox have made some moves this offseason, but not all of them went over well with the fans. This free agency period has given us a good idea of top prospect Marcelo Mayer's timeline to the Major Leagues. Let me explain. Some were upset that the Red Sox didn't bring in any big free agents. Most were upset that they failed to bring back…

Could the Boston Red Sox gamble on a well-known, high-upside pitcher with their first-round pick in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft? The Athletic's Keith Law released a new mock draft Monday, six days before the start of the MLB draft, and projected the Red Sox to land right-hander Kumar Rocker with the No. 24 overall selection. There was a…

The Boston Red Sox own the 14th pick in the 2023 Major League Baseball Draft. But they almost landed the No. 1 overall selection. MLB conducted its first-ever draft lottery Tuesday at the winter meetings in San Diego. The top six picks were determined via the lottery, which the Pittsburgh Pirates won, followed by (in order) the Washington…

A couple weeks ago 30 SB Nation baseball writers got together and conducted the annual SBN GM Simulation. For three days we acted as the GM of a team - I represented the Red Sox once more - with one goal: prepare the 2023 roster. Each GM is given a roster of current players as of the end of the season, so any move the real teams made during the…

On March 31, 2019, Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Elvis Luciano became the first player born in the 2000s to reach the big leagues. In the years since, a wave of talented young players who weren't even born when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire were chasing down Roger Maris during the 1998 season has descended on Major League Baseball. 2022 Rookie of…

Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen and manager Torey Lovullo have worked together since 2017. Theirs is one of the longest current partnerships in baseball for a head of baseball operations and manager. Only the Dodgers (Andrew Friedman and Dave Roberts), Guardians (Chris Antonelli and Terry Francona), and Mariners (Jerry Dipoto and Scott…

Major League Baseball on Monday announced its plans for the inaugural MLB Draft Lottery set to take place on Dec. 6. The lottery was implemented as part of the 2022 collective-bargaining agreement to discourage clubs from tanking. Previously, the first overall pick would be given to the team with the worst record. Going forward, the order of the…

For the Red Sox, the 2022 minor league season continued the rebuilding of a talent pipeline. Top prospects Marcelo Mayer, Triston Casas, Brayan Bello, and Miguel Bleis saw potential coalesce into performance that underscored the views of elite potential. Ceddanne Rafaela had a breakout year that also made him look like a big league regular in…