{"id":98657,"date":"2025-04-02T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=98657"},"modified":"2025-04-02T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:46:20","slug":"red-sox-ink-infielder-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/02\/red-sox-ink-infielder-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristian Campbell, Red Sox Agree to Eight-Year Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1907489037902037183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Jeff Passan on X<\/a>, the Boston Red Sox have agreed to an eight-year contract extension with rookie second baseman Kristian Campbell. The deal is worth $60 million and keeps Campbell in Boston until the 2034 season. There are club options in 2033 and 2024, and they can reach a guaranteed amount of $100 million over 10 years.<\/p>\n<h3>Red Sox and Kristian Campbell Agree to Eight-Year Deal<\/h3>\n<p>News broke earlier this week that a Campbell extension may be in the works after the Red Sox agreed to a six-year, $170 million extension with starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/31\/garrett-crochet-red-sox-agree-to-six-year-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">Garrett Crochet<\/a>. Now that Campbell is extended, the Sox have locked up two key pieces of their future as they look to compete at the top of the American League.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, 22, was a fourth-round pick by the Red Sox in the 2023 MLB draft after earning All-American Honors at Georgia Tech. He rose through the Sox&#8217;s farm system, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/redsox\/kristian-campbell-692225\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">winning<\/a> MLB Pipeline&#8217;s Hitting Prospect of the Year, MiLB Breakout Player of the Year, and Double-A Eastern League MVP in his first professional season.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell entered the season as the Red Sox&#8217;s second-ranked prospect and the No. 6 overall prospect in baseball after not making a top 100 list the year prior, and he cracked the opening day roster as the team&#8217;s starting second baseman, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/23\/red-sox-favoring-kristian-campbell\/\" target=\"_self\">beating out<\/a> former top prospect Vaughn Grissom. Despite the club getting off to a 1-4 start, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/01\/kristian-campbell-red-sox-extension-talks\/\" target=\"_self\">Campbell has impressed<\/a>, hitting to a .375\/.500\/.688 line.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell is the first of the Red Sox&#8217;s three big prospects to make the jump to the majors. With MLB&#8217;s No. 2-ranked prospect Roman Anthony and No. 11-ranked Marcelo Mayer soon to follow, the Sox will have one of the league&#8217;s youngest and most exciting rosters shortly. Locking up Campbell and Crochet shows that the front office is committed to winning after enduring rough years in the Chaim Bloom era.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jeff Passan on X, the Boston Red Sox have agreed to an eight-year contract extension with rookie second baseman Kristian Campbell. The deal is worth $60 million and keeps Campbell in Boston until the 2034 season. There are club options in 2033 and 2024, and they can reach a guaranteed amount of $100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":98665,"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],"tags":[3164,3614,28602,4897,28596],"class_list":["post-98657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","tag-chaim-bloom","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-kristian-campbell","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-roman-anthony"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98657","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=98657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98667,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98657\/revisions\/98667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}