{"id":50228,"date":"2025-05-22T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=50228"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:41:38","slug":"red-sox-may-cut-ties-with-11-75-million-all-star-make-way-for-roman-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=50228","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox May Cut Ties With $11.75 Million All-Star, Make Way For Roman Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"has-video wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Roman-Anthony-Jarren-Duran.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Roman-Anthony-Jarren-Duran.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Roman-Anthony-Jarren-Duran.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Roman-Anthony-Jarren-Duran.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Roman Anthony\" width=\"780\" height=\"452\" data-img-load-time=\"334\" data-dom-ready-time=\"653\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-widget-area\">\n<div id=\"heavy_multi_stn_video_player_widget-4\" class=\"stn-player-cls stn-player-container\">\n<div data-stn-player=\"wfgg3pv0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a sluggish 2024 season that ended in an unsatisfying 81-81 record and\u00a0a third straight year of no\u00a0postseason play, the Boston Red Sox had one big feel-good story nonetheless. That was the story of Jarren Duran.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0seventh-round draft pick\u00a0out of Cal State Long Beach in 2018, Duran struggled through his first two big league seasons in Boston \u2014 at the same time being public about\u00a0discussing his mental health journey\u00a0as he battled depression and self-doubt.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2024, at age 27, Duran blossomed. He led the American League in both doubles (48) and triples (14), put together a solid .834 OPS while stealing 34 bases. In one\u00a0sparkling high point\u00a0of the season, Duran was not only named an AL All-Star, he belted a game-deciding home run and\u00a0won the Midsummer Classic\u2019s MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>In the offseason, though Duran was eligible \u00a0for salary arbitration, the Red Sox offered him, and Duran signed, a\u00a0one-year, $3.75 million contract with a club option for a second year at $8 million \u2014 a total of $11.75 million.<\/p>\n<h2>Duran\u2019s Defense May End His Tenure in Boston<\/h2>\n<p>That amount kicks in, however, only if the Red Sox exercise their option. In 2025 Duran has been inconsistent. His OPS\u00a0so far in 2025 stands\u00a0at only .730. At the same time, Duran\u2019s six triples lead the Majors,\u00a0tied with Corbin Carroll\u00a0of the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Red Sox analyst Alex Mayes of the\u00a0<em>TalkSox<\/em>\u00a0site, however, it may be Duran\u2019s defense that forces Boston to cut ties with the Corona, California, native.<\/p>\n<p>By parting ways with Duran, the Red Sox would create an open spot in the outfield that could be immediately filled by the No. 1 overall prospect not only in the Red Sox system, but in all of baseball,\u00a0according to the\u00a0<em>MLB Pipeline<\/em>\u00a0rankings, Roman Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, Duran was an All-Star left fielder because of his range of contributions on both sides of the ball,\u201d\u00a0Mayes wrote for\u00a0<em>TalkSox<\/em>\u00a0on Monday. \u201cThis year, though, his defense has taken a significant step backwards. He leads all Boston outfielders with three errors, his range has taken a significant nosedive, and his arm value (via\u00a0<em>Baseball Savant<\/em>) went from a scorching-hot 86th percentile to an ice-cold 25th.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Nothing Left to Prove at Triple-A for Top Prospect<\/h2>\n<p>At the same time, the 21-year-old Anthony appears to have nothing important left to prove at the Triple-A level, where he has spent the 2025 season so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifficult at this point to justify Roman Anthony still being in Triple-A,\u201d wrote Red Sox\u00a0beat reporter Christopher Smith of\u00a0<em>MassLive<\/em> on Tuesday. \u201cHe\u2019s batting .322 with a .970 OPS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 191 plate appearances for the Triple-A Worcester Red Sox,\u00a0Anthony has belted six home runs, eight doubles and a pair of triple. The 2022 second-round pick out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has perhaps most impressively drawn 37 walks, getting him to a .450 on base percentage.<\/p>\n<p>While Anthony is not known as a \u201cplus\u201d defender in the outfield \u2014 where he typically plays left field, Duran\u2019s current position \u2014 Duran has struggled badly in 2025, according to the\u00a0<em>TalkSox<\/em>\u00a0analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of leading all outfielders in errors, Duran also has the lowest outs above average of all the outfielders at negative two,\u201d Mayes wrote. \u201cHis expected catch percentage is sitting at 88 percent, but his actual catch percentage is two percent lower at 86 percent. The last time he had a lower actual catch percentage than his expected percentage was 2022, the lowest point of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayes added that, \u201cI\u2019ll stand by my take that I think Duran needs to be traded. Even with a down year, he will bring in a bigger haul than anyone not named Roman Anthony or Marcelo Mayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the Red Sox do not cut ties with Duran in a trade, he is likely to \u201cbe relegated to being a bench piece when Roman Anthony finally gets the call up to the major league team,\u201d Mayes wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty In a sluggish 2024 season that ended in an unsatisfying 81-81 record and\u00a0a third straight year of no\u00a0postseason play, the Boston Red Sox had one big&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Sox May Cut Ties With $11.75 Million All-Star, Make Way For Roman Anthony - 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