2025 Boston Red Sox

2025 Boston Red Sox / Franchise: Boston Red Sox / BR Team Page[edit]

Record: 89-73, Finished 3rd in AL Eastern Division (2025 AL) Wild Card

Coaches: Andrew Bailey, Peter Fatse, Jose Flores, Chris Holt, Kyle Hudson, Dillon Lawson, Ben Rosenthal, Jason Varitek and Ramon Vazquez

Ballpark: Fenway Park

History, Comments, Contributions[edit]

On April 29th, the 2025 Boston Red Sox proved to be ungrateful visitors at the Rogers Centre when they matched a franchise record by homering five times against Bowden Francis of the Toronto Blue Jays. Jarren Duran started things off with a lead-off homer, followed by another one by off-season free agent signee Alex Bregman. In the 2nd inning, it was the turn of rookie Kristian Campbell, who had earned the starting job at second base in spring training, to hit a solo homer, followed in the 3rd by Rafael Devers, now the DH after giving up his starting third base job to the better-fielding Bregman. Finally, after the next two batters reached, Wilyer Abreu completed the outburst with a three-run shot. The 10-2 win improved the Red Sox's record to 17-14, just a game and a half behind the division-leading New York Yankees.

If the month of April had generally been a good one for Boston, it was not the case in May as the Sox went 11-17 and found themselves in fourth place, 8 1/2 games out of first at the end of the month. On May 2nd, they lost 1B Triston Casas to a season-ending knee injury, but when the team brass - including owner John Henry - approached Devers to see if he would be willing to take over at first base in his absence, he flatly refused, saying that he had already learned one new position to accommodate the team and would not do so again. That was problematic, and when Bregman went down with an injury in turn, Boston did not look to shift Devers back to the hot corner, instead calling up top prospect Marcelo Mayer to fill in.

The first couple of weeks of June marked a major turnaround for the team. First, they started playing better: after splitting their first four games, they took two of three from the Yankees, and then on June 9th called up the last of the trio of top prospects that had wowed reporters in spring training, after Campbell and Mayer, in OF Roman Anthony. It was clear that they were now going all-in with youth, a trend started the year before, and after losing the opener of a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays that day, they went on a tear. They took the next two from the Rays, then swept the Yankees in three games at Fenway Park, before taking the first game against the Seattle Mariners on the road on June 16th, thanks in large part to Anthony's first big league homer. They had now won six in a row and were sniffing contention again as they had improved to two games above .500. But most important, on June 15th, they had made a huge decision as an organization, cutting ties with the disgruntled Devers, who was in the second year of a huge ten-year contract extension, trading him to the San Francisco Giants in return for four players, including two major league pitchers in Kyle Harrison and Jordan Hicks. It was a risky move as, for all his disagreements with management, Devers had been hitting very well with an OPS+ of 152, but it seems that the differences had become irreconcilable and his unwillingness to play any position other than DH was seriously hampering the team's flexibility with Bregman and OF Masataka Yoshida about to come off the injured list. With Devers' departure, there was no player left on the team who had been part of their last championship, in 2018.

On July 5th, the Red Sox defeated the Washington Nationals, 10-3, for the 10,000th win in franchise history. They were the second American League team to reach the milestone, after the New York Yankees. They finished the first half of the season on a high, winning their final ten games before the All-Star Game. In the penultimate game, on July 12th, off-season acquisition Garrett Crochet pitched the first complete game shutout of his career in defeating the Rays, 1-0. The next day, they defeated the Rays again, 4-1, with CF Ceddanne Rafaela clubbing a two-run homer, two days after hitting a walk-off blast in win #8. Thanks to that winning streak, they entered the break at 53-45, just one game behind the Yankees and three behind the first-place Blue Jays.

It took until the final series of the season for the Red Sox to clinch their spot in the postseason, this coming on September 26th thanks to a 4-3 walk-off win over the Detroit Tigers. Rafaela was again the hero, as he hit a game-ending triple off Tommy Kahnle in the bottom of the 9th to score Romy Gonzalez from first base with the winning run. It was their 88th win of the season, which was both their highest win total and first postseason since 2021.

Awards and Honors[edit]

All-Stars: Alex Bregman, Aroldis Chapman and Garrett Crochet
Mariano Rivera Award: Aroldis Chapman
MLB All-Rookie Team: Roman Anthony (OF)
AL Gold Glove: Wilyer Abreu (RF) and Ceddanne Rafaela (CF)

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