For the last two years, the Boston Red Sox hyped up their trio of top prospects (Marcelo Mayer, Roman Anthony and Kyle Teel) as the group to build around and take the team into the next generation of Sox championships.
However, this offseason, Boston parted with Teel, sending him in a package to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for starting pitcher Garrett Crochet.
That trio essentially rose through the system together, even all getting promoted to Triple-A Worcester late in 2024.
Speaking with Rob Bradford on the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast, Mayer shared a hilarious story about how he heard that Teel was dealt.
“(I was) here in my house, and I was just watching MLB Network with my dad. We were just talking, and we usually have MLB Network on the TV just running out there,” Mayer said. “Chase Meidroth calls me, and he’s like ‘Dude, Teel just got traded.’ And, I’m like ‘No way. That’s crazy.’ It had said Kyle Teel and other prospects, so as he’s telling me that, he’s like ‘I wonder who the other prospects are.’ As he tells me that, he’s like ‘Dude, (Craig) Breslow’s calling me.’ I’m like ‘No way.’ So, that’s how I found out that Chase was getting traded too. That was crazy… He heard the news, and then he called me, and he was like ‘What the hell just happened.'”
Meidroth, 23, was a 2022 fourth-round pick of the Red Sox out of San Diego. He had a great 2024 season in Worcester, hitting .293 with an .838 OPS, seven home runs, 57 RBIs and 13 stolen bases.
The 23-year-old finding out he was being traded in a deal after trying to break that news to someone else is just an incredible visual.
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