Back to the Boston Red Sox Newsfeed

How Alex Cora creatively revealed to Kristian Campbell that he made the Red Sox roster

Kristian Campbell’s Major League moment: Kristian Campbell, the Baseball America 2024 Minor League Player of the Year, will begin the 2025 Major League season with the Red Sox.

The news reached Campbell on Sunday after the team’s final spring training game, and was revealed in an enjoyably surprising way for the 22-year-old. Boston manager Alex Cora snuck the news into a project he had the rookie assigned to.

“There’s a little bit of a backstory behind it,” Campbell told reporters on Monday night. “He asked me about all the different guys who played professional baseball that went to Georgia Tech.