If you’re driving eastbound on the Mass Pike right now, please be extra careful. Maybe stop reading this and put your phone down.
And now we can all quit our whining: the 19th-best team in baseball has finally found room for the game’s number one prospect.
Parkland, Florida’s Roman Joseph Anthony is en route to Boston as we speak. Here’s video evidence of him somehow holding back the tears as he says goodbye to Worcester, Massachusetts — the heart of the Commonwealth! — for the last time:
Roman Anthony, the top prospect in baseball, has been called up to the Red Sox. From the man himself. pic.twitter.com/VwP5uBzyU4
— Katie Morrison-O’Day (@KatieMo61) June 9, 2025
(Side note: I hope he knew that cars with matte finishes can’t be taken through the car wash before he bought that car. That’s a really annoying realization that comes all too late for many car owners these days.)
Anthony slashed .288/.423/.491 in Worcester this year, with 10 homers, 9 doubles, 51 walks, and 56 strikeouts in 58 games. Aside from Corey Seager, he spent more time in AAA prior to his big league debut than any other number one prospect in recent memory, but he managed to kill time and stay busy by hitting historically long home runs.
We have not yet heard any reports of corresponding roster moves, but the rumor is that outfielder Wilyer Abreu is heading to the IL. Until this very moment, there hasn’t been any mention whatsoever of an injury to Abreu, who had a torrid opening series against the Rangers and has since fallen apart at the plate (he’s hit just .222/.228/.419 in the 60 games following the Rangers series).
It is clear that the Red Sox front office entered the 2025 season with no real plan for how to fit either Anthony, nor his fellow super prospect Marcelo Mayer, into the Red Sox lineup. With three young, cheap, and dynamic outfielders already on the team, that was admittedly a difficult task. But great front offices find creative ways to solve difficult problems. The Sox, unfortunately, didn’t seem all that interested in even trying.
But that’s all irrelevant now. If you’re frustrated by the time it took Anthony to get here, I understand. But it’s time to let it go. The next time that Roman Anthony hits a 497-foot home run, it will be in a big league ballpark. The heir to one of baseball’s historic glamour positions — left field for the Boston Red Sox — is here.