{"id":63166,"date":"2025-08-12T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63166\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:02:09","slug":"red-sox-notes-anthony-garcia-sandlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63166\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Notes: Anthony, Garcia, Sandlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox and Roman Anthony<\/a> agreed to an eight-year extension worth at least $130MM in guaranteed money earlier this week<\/a>, fully cementing the young star as a key part of the team\u2019s future.\u00a0 The two sides had somewhat lightly discussed an extension prior to the season, as The Boston Globe\u2019s Alex Speier<\/a> writes that a \u201ctrue back-and-forth about a framework\u201d never happened, even after three different offers from the Sox shortened what started as \u201ca considerable gap\u201d in asking prices.<\/p>\n

It seemed like the negotiations were going to be put on hold until after the season until chief baseball officer Craig Breslow<\/a> contacted both Anthony and agent Mark Rodgers with a new offer on August 3.\u00a0 As Breslow explained to Speier and other reporters, the team felt free to revisit talks with the chaos of the trade deadline now in the past, with the caveat that they obviously wanted Anthony\u2019s focus to remain on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe balance that we needed to strike was trying to aggressively extend Rome and recognizing how important he is to our 2025 team and also our future with not presenting or creating a distraction when this team is playing so well\u2026[We were] very clear with Mark and Roman\u2019s camp that we had no interest in allowing this to become a distraction, and that if we could work through this quickly, that would be great, and if not, that was also OK,\u201d Breslow said.<\/p>\n

The talks were restarted between the team, Rodgers, and two other Frontline Athlete Management agents.\u00a0 A couple of smaller details almost held up the proceedings entirely, but a deal was eventually reached.\u00a0 The end result was the eight-year commitment that might be worth another $70MM, depending on whether or not Anthony hits any of the many escalator clauses attached within his contract.<\/p>\n

Anthony is the fifth different Red Sox player to sign an extension since Breslow took over the front office in October 2023, as the executive has made a point of locking up cornerstone players.\u00a0 Garrett Crochet<\/a> was signed to a six-year, $170MM deal after being acquired from the White Sox this past offseason, and Boston has also signed homegrown youngsters Anthony, Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a>, Kristian Campbell<\/a>, and Brayan Bello<\/a> to long-term deals.<\/p>\n

These contracts are a testament to both upper management\u2019s belief in this young talent and the depth of the Red Sox farm system.\u00a0 The pipeline isn\u2019t even dry yet, as another intriguing prospect could still be called up to address the team\u2019s need at first base.\u00a0 Jhostynxon Garcia<\/a> has been a career outfielder in the minors but he is working out at the position at Triple-A.\u00a0 Worcester manager Chad Tracy said Garcia could potentially see some game action at first base within the next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s the only way we can speed him up, then we might have to do it,\u201d Tracy told Speier<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cWe take into consideration, ultimately, if he makes a mistake and it\u2019s costly, oh well, at least it\u2019s not at Fenway\u2026.At the same time, you also don\u2019t want to throw a player out there to the wolves who you feel like is not ready and have him standing out there with his shoulders down feeling like he\u2019s costing the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hitting-wise, Garcia seems very ready for the Show, as he has batted .303\/.370\/.581 with 16 home runs over his first 262 Triple-A plate appearances.\u00a0 Given the crowded Red Sox outfield, a move to first base would allow \u201cthe Password\u201d a much smoother path to the bigs before 2025 is over.\u00a0 The presence of Romy Gonzalez<\/a> and Abraham Toro<\/a> (Boston\u2019s current first base platoon) would provide cover to help alleviate any pressure on Garcia, and his bat could be an intriguing x-factor for the Red Sox in the playoff race.<\/p>\n

Along these same lines, starter prospect David Sandlin<\/a> has been pitching out of the Worcester bullpen with an eye towards a possible relief role on the MLB roster.\u00a0 Sandlin has made only four appearances total at the Triple-A level, but if he looks good in his new assignment, the hard-throwing righty could be in line for another quick promotion up to the Show.\u00a0 Speier reports<\/a> that Sandlin was a popular trade ask for rival teams heading into the deadline, speaking to how much interest the right-hander has generated due to both his pitching arsenal and his results in Double-A in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox and Roman Anthony agreed to an eight-year extension worth at least $130MM in guaranteed money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,40722,30567,462,4015,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-63166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-david-sandlin","11":"tag-jhostynxon-garcia","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-roman-anthony","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}