Red Sox Takeaways from the opening of the trip: crochet, Campbell extensions, Devars receives success

The opening trip of the season for the Boston Red Sox did not start with the best note, but ended with a good one. After losing three out of four against the Texas Rangers, the Red Sox brought two out of three to Baltimore to finish the trip to 3-4. Out of the field he was also busy, since the team signed two key members of their list for long -term extensions.

After an 8-4 victory over Thursday’s Orioles, the Red Sox return home for seven games, with three this weekend against St. Louis Cardinals and four next week against Toronto Blue Jays. Friday’s Open on Friday is set for a first shot at 14:00 with Walker Buhler on the mound.

Here are some key takeaways of the trip:

Rafael Devers finally receives his first success

After starting the season A historically ugly strip (0-Per-19 with 15 Strikeout in his first five games), Devers has finally marked his first success of the season on Wednesday and led in his first heat in the trial.

In his first two AT-Bats in the night, Devers jumped out and then put to the ground, marking marginal progress after so many strikeouts, but lengthening his strip without hits on 0-to-21. When he arrived on the plate in the fifth with a runner, he pulled a 2-1 curve ball on the right field for a double, scoring Ceddanne Rafaela. Deversi’s first success came out of the Mazza at 109.5 mph. Its average output speed in 2024 was 93.2 mph. Red Sox shelter broke out in applause and Dever seemed to be raised to contact finally.

“They all needed it,” said manager Alex Cora to journalists in Baltimora after the game.

Devars added a single in the center in his next AT-BAT, ending 2-for-4. Thursday he took a walk in his first appearance and scored two shots by Alex Bregman on Homer. He finished on day 1 by 3, collecting another strikeout and two flies before hitting a single in the center in the ninth inning on a 1-2 shot (a cutter). He is still finding his rhythm, but he is starting to establish more contacts and this bodes well for his time to the plate.

Garrett Crochet dominant in the first post-extension start

The Crochet line on the opening day in Texas was not bad with two points allowed in five shots and two walks together with four Strikeout in five inning, but the bar that is ready for himself is so high that it was a little disappointing. After regularly hit the triple figures in spring training, he only 97.5 mph cumo in the apri.

The looming contractual interviews could have had something to do with the performance and the Red Sox eliminated that distraction before his next start, Sign Crochet for a six -year extension of six years and $ 170 million on Tuesday.

When Crochet returned to the mound on Wednesday in Baltimore, he was absolutely dominant.

“This is the reason why it is here. This is why we are committed to him.”

Alex Cora on the stellar trip of Garrett Crochet ⭐ #Redsox pic.twitter.com/dxwe8c36o4

– Nesn (@nesn) April 3, 2025

The left arm has published eight inning without score, allowing four shots and a walk while hitting eight. He launched 102 shots, 68 for the strikes and recorded 14 swings and Miss. He marked the longest start of his career, after reaching seven inning three times in his first season as an appetizer last year with the White Sox.

The crochet still has maximum only 98.1 mph, but preserving the heaters for mid -summer is still a safer bet and clearly no longer needed speed with an absolutely dominant performance against a strong Baltimore formation.

Kristian Campbell starts at a red start while signature in the long term with the team

The beginning of the Campbell season for the season in Texas continued in Baltimore. After finishing 6 out of 14 with two doubles and one Homer against the Rangers, Campbell kept him in Baltimore, going 4 out of 10 with a humerus and two doubles.

He reached the base safely in all seven his games as a great league, affecting six of them in six, and is 10-per-24 (.417) with four doubles, two homers, four walks and five strikeouts. For Elias, Campbell is the first Red Sox player to have at least 10 shots, six extra-base blows and four walks in the first seven games to start their career.

In addition to his monstrous debut of the great League, Campbell has also signed an extension of the eight -year contract of $ 60 million this week, blocking it until 2032. The very early returns are showing that the agreement is worth it.

Before the extension, Campbell would have been under the control of the team for another six seasons until 2030. With the New Deal, the Red Soxs ensured him for another two years to $ 13 million and $ 16 million, respectively.

If Campbell had not signed a long-term agreement, he would have been a pre-artifice player for the next three years in which the team establishes his salary, slightly above the minimum of the major League of $ 760,000, which increases every year.

Over the years from four to six, Campbell would have been admissible to the arbitration in which he and the team negotiate the salaries from year to year. Generally, players earn between $ 5-15 million in their three years of arbitration, although it varies widely. The record salary for a player suitable for arbitration was the salary of $ 31.5 million Juan Soto with the Yankees last season, his latest team check before entering the free agency and sign his monster monster this winter.

Depending on how Campbell’s career takes place, he would have earned about $ 40 million before hitting the free agency before 2031

Could Campbell have waited more money? Obviously. But he has chosen security and now the red Sox have done so as the main main for the best part of the next decade.

Will Bregman and Red Sox have a happy return home to Fenway?

In recent years, the Red Sox have not played well at home, with 2022 the last season have published a winning record (43-38) in Boston.

Each of the last two seasons that the Red Sox recorded 38 and 39 wins, respectively, from their 81 games at home and have not been able to capitalize on the friendly boundaries of Fenway Park, in particular the wall on the left.

Bregman, whose career ops 1,240 at Fenway Park is the highest among players with at least 75 dishes, hopes to change it.

Last season with Houston, Bregman went 7 to 15 with two home races and two doubles in a series of three games in Fenway. In his career in Boston, he hit .375 with seven homers, nine doubles and 15 RBIs in 21 games.

It is unlikely that he will publish that type of number in an entire season in Fenway (even if who knows with the Bathar Bat In use), but it is a safe bet that Bregman will hit home park well and this should be a good omen for the rest of the team.

(Top photo of Campbell: Greg Fiue / Getty Images)