Kristian Campbell

Kristian Campbell

22-Year-Old Second Baseman2B
Boston Red Sox
2025 Fantasy Outlook
The top pop-up prospect of 2024, Campbell slashed .329/.437/.551 with 20 home runs, 24 steals and a 20 percent strikeout rate in 115 games across the top three levels of the minor leagues. Selected with the No. 132 overall pick in 2023, Campbell signed for just under $500K and now he has a chance of winning a spot on the Opening Day roster in 2025. While Campbell received 25-plus starts at shortstop, center field and second base last year, it's pretty clear that second base is where he fits on this roster, where David Hamilton is the top incumbent and Vaughn Grissom also hopes to figure into things. Campbell has a much higher ceiling than Hamilton or Grissom and may not be a short-term downgrade, so it would make sense for the Red Sox to break camp with Campbell if they think he's ready, as he could net them a Prospect Promotion Incentive Pick. There aren't any obvious flaws with Campbell, although 2024 was his first year hitting for notable power -- he had a higher slugging percentage last year than he did at any stop as an amateur. If he looks like the same player in spring training, momentum will build in the redraft market, and he's already a locked in top-10 dynasty prospect. Read Past Outlooks
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Rest of Season From Preseason
#279
ADP
$Signed a one-year, $760,000 contract with the Red Sox in March of 2025.
In contract talks
2BBoston Red Sox
March 30, 2025
Campbell and the Red Sox are deep into talks on a long-term contract extension, Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com reports.
ANALYSIS
Multiple industry sources have confirmed the talks, including one source who described the deal as "close." Campbell is off to an impressive start to his MLB career, hitting safely in three straight games including his first major-league home run in Saturday's 4-3 loss to the Rangers. "He's a hitter that controls the strike zone, makes good swing decisions and drives the ball hard to right-center," manager Alex Cora said. "He's feeling good about himself." Campbell's potential extension follows a recent pattern by the club of locking up young players to long-term deals. Boston inked Garrett Whitlock to a four-year extension in 2021 and Ceddanne Rafaela for eight years in 2024. The team also tried and was unable to reach a long-term agreement with starter Garrett Crochet this spring.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
2
1
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
1
3/273/283/293/303/31987654321
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
+157%
OPS vs RHP
2025
 
 
+157%
OPS vs RHP
2024
No Stats
2023
No Stats
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023vs Left .500 4 1 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000
Since 2023vs Right 1.286 16 3 1 1 0 .429 .500 .786
2025vs Left .500 4 1 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000
2025vs Right 1.286 16 3 1 1 0 .429 .500 .786
2024vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2023
 
 
-100%
OPS on Road
2025
 
 
-100%
OPS on Road
2024
No Stats
2023
No Stats
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Since 2023Away 1.188 20 4 1 2 0 .375 .500 .688
2025Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2025Away 1.188 20 4 1 2 0 .375 .500 .688
2024Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Kristian Campbell compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.80
 
BB Rate
20.0%
 
K Rate
25.0%
 
BABIP
.500
 
ISO
.313
 
AVG
.375
 
OBP
.500
 
SLG
.688
 
OPS
1.188
 
wOBA
.504
 
Exit Velocity
85.1 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
45.5%
 
Barrels/PA
5.0%
 
Expected BA
.253
 
Expected SLG
.449
 
Sprint Speed
27.1 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
72.7%
 
Line Drive %
9.1%
 
Fly Ball %
18.2%
 
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Blasts first major-league home run
2BBoston Red Sox
March 29, 2025
Campbell started in left field went 2-for-3 with a solo home run, a double and a walk in Saturday's 4-3 loss to the Rangers.
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Batting sixth in MLB debut
2BBoston Red Sox
March 27, 2025
The Red Sox selected Campbell's contract from Triple-A Worcester on Thursday, Mac Cerullo of the Boston Herald reports. He'll start at second base and bat sixth in Thursday's season opener versus the Rangers.
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Earns Opening Day spot
2BBoston Red Sox
March 23, 2025
The Red Sox informed Campbell on Sunday that he'll be included on the Opening Day roster, Ari Alexander of KPRC 2 Houston reports.
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Another encouraging day
2BBoston Red Sox
March 23, 2025
Campbell started at second base and went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Saturday's spring game against Tampa Bay.
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Will start Saturday
2BBoston Red Sox
March 22, 2025
Campbell is expected to start at second base Saturday, Christopher Smith of MassLive.com reports.
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Latest Fantasy Rumors
Unlikely to make roster?
2BBoston Red Sox
March 5, 2025
Ian Browne of MLB.com doesn't believe Campbell will be included on the Red Sox's Opening Day roster.
ANALYSIS
The 22-year-old is one of the organization's top prospects and finished the 2024 campaign at the Triple-A level after opening the year at High-A. The offseason signing of Alex Bregman clogged a Boston infield that already included Triston Casas, Rafael Devers and Trevor Story, leaving a narrow path to playing time for Campbell. He played in just 19 games at Triple-A last year, so beginning 2025 back in the minors has always seemed to be the likeliest course of action.
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