{"id":102500,"date":"2025-06-19T17:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=102500"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:36:39","slug":"report-red-sox-to-send-kristian-campbell-to-triple-a-after-rough-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/19\/report-red-sox-to-send-kristian-campbell-to-triple-a-after-rough-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Red Sox to Send Kristian Campbell to Triple-A After Rough Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox are sending\u00a0rookie utility man Kristian Campbell to Triple-A Worcester, ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan reports. The club has yet to announce any corresponding moves. Campbell&#8217;s demotion comes on the back of a brutal two-month stretch that saw him hit .159 in May and June.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Boston Red Sox are sending infielder Kristian Campbell to Triple-A, sources tell ESPN. Campbell, who signed an eight-year, $60 million contract this spring, was hitting .301\/.407\/.495 at the end of April but is .159\/.243\/.222 since. He&#8217;ll get a chance to reset in Worcester.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1935781635481321531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Report: Kristian Campbell Sent to Triple-A Worcester<\/h2>\n<p>Campbell, 22, entered the 2025 season as Boston&#8217;s No. 2 prospect and the No. 7 overall prospect in baseball. A second baseman in the minors, Campbell won MLB Pipeline&#8217;s Hitting Prospect of the Year and Double-A&#8217;s Eastern League MVP in 2024. Coming out of spring training, Campbell was the only one of the Red Sox&#8217;s &#8220;big three&#8221; prospects to make the big league roster.<\/p>\n<p>After a blistering start to the season, Campbell earned himself an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/02\/red-sox-ink-infielder-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">eight-year contract<\/a> extension worth $60 million shortly after Opening Day. He finished April with a slash line of <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1935781635481321531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">.301\/.407\/.495<\/a> and looked well on his way to being one of the top contenders for American League Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102509\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-102509\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-2048x1370.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26410921_168400885_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jun 8, 2025; Bronx, New York, USA; Boston Red Sox second baseman Kristian Campbell (28) hits a two-run home run against the New York Yankees during the fifth inning at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the beginning of May, Campbell has gone cold, hitting .154\/.236\/.215, striking out at a 29.2% clip. He has also had a rough time defensively, accumulating -14 DRS and -8 OAA at second base. The Red Sox have also given him reps in the outfield and had him begin working on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/07\/how-red-sox-fill-first-base-hole\/\" target=\"_self\">playing first base<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/02\/red-sox-triston-casas-exits-game-knee-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">Triston Casas<\/a> went to the injured list, but never gave him any game time at the position.<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the hot start and big contract, Campbell will be sent back to Triple-A to try and work his way out of his current slump. The Red Sox are currently fourth in the AL East with a 39-37 record, and are tied for the final AL Wild Card spot. Despite being in a playoff spot, the club opted to trade their franchise cornerstone, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/15\/sf-giants-acquire-rafael-devers-red-sox\/\" target=\"_self\">Rafael Devers<\/a>, to the San Francisco Giants, getting no big league bats in return. With only 204 professional games under his belt, this demotion may help Campbell work back to the above-average utility man the Red Sox believe he can be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Eric Canha-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox are sending\u00a0rookie utility man Kristian Campbell to Triple-A Worcester, ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan reports. The club has yet to announce any corresponding moves. Campbell&#8217;s demotion comes on the back of a brutal two-month stretch that saw him hit .159 in May and June. The Boston Red Sox are sending infielder Kristian Campbell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":102508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,926,1071,35],"tags":[28602,1535,2021],"class_list":["post-102500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-milb","category-mlb","category-news","tag-kristian-campbell","tag-rafael-devers","tag-triston-casas"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102510,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102500\/revisions\/102510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}