Red Sox promoting No. 1 prospect Marcelo Mayer to Double-A

Marcelo Mayer is moving on up.

After a stellar month of May in which he hit .321 with a .998 OPS, the Red Sox informed their No. 1 prospect that he’ll join Double-A Portland this week.

Sources confirm Alex Speier’s initial report (Boston Globe) that the organization is promoting the shortstop just 35 games into the High-A Greenville season.

Mayer hit .290 with a .890 OPS, 42 hits (11 doubles, one triple, seven home runs), 23 runs, and 34 RBI with the Greenville Drive this year, but the way he heated up in May pushed the Red Sox to move his timetable up; he collected 25 hits, including seven doubles, six home runs (including his first career multi-homer game), 14 runs, and 23 RBI over 18 games this month.

It’s been less than two years and only 152 professional games since the Red Sox selected Mayer as the fourth overall pick in the 2021 draft, but he’s been considered their shortstop of the future almost from the start. So much so that Xander Bogaerts’ agent, Scott Boras, indicated that Mayer’s potential factored into the team not pushing harder to retain Bogaerts last year.

Mayer is set to join the Sea Dogs for their series in New Jersey on Tuesday. At 20 years old (born Dec. 12, 2002), he’s the youngest draft pick to ascend to the second-highest level of the Red Sox farm system since Anthony Rizzo and Casey Kelly in 2009.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/m0wTMzb