{"id":52091,"date":"2025-05-24T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/52091\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:07:11","slug":"red-sox-top-prospect-marcelo-mayers-big-league-arrival-delayed-by-lost-car-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/52091\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox top prospect Marcelo Mayer’s big-league arrival delayed by lost car keys"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox are calling up top prospect Marcelo Mayer after Alex Bregman was injured in Friday’s game<\/a> against the Orioles, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mayer is one of the top prospects in baseball, and Boston could use a boost with Bregman’s near future uncertain. He left Friday’s game with quad tightness and manager Alex Cora didn’t have more information after the game.<\/p>\n

With Bregman out, Katie Morrison O’Day of MassLive reported<\/a> that teammates were congratulating Meyer in the Worcester Red Sox clubhouse on Saturday. Shortly after, MassLive’s Christopher Smith confirmed<\/a> the 22-year-old was en route to Fenway Park.<\/p>\n

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However, that trip was delayed for a somewhat relatable reason: Mayer’s car keys have been lost for weeks and he needed a ride to Fenway from a Worcester clubhouse attendant.<\/p>\n

Meyer’s big opportunity comes after he batted 271\/.347\/.471 in 43 appearances for Triple-A affiliate Worcester this season. He also became the hit leader in the International League by blasting nine home runs, five doubles and a triple with 43 RBI.<\/p>\n

His impressive performances led Meyer to be ranked as Boston’s second-best prospect, behind Roman Anthony, and eighth-best in baseball on MLB Pipeline’s rankings<\/a>. The Chula Vista, California, native played collegiate baseball at USC and was selected by the Red Sox with the fourth pick in the 2021 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n

Meyer could debut in the second game of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles at 6:35 p.m. ET on Saturday. The Red Sox are 26-26 and sit in third place in the AL East after a 19-5 loss on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox are calling up top prospect Marcelo Mayer after Alex Bregman was injured in Friday’s game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,5,141,15557,15558,1350,15556,1248,15555,4,125,89,3970],"class_list":{"0":"post-52091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-car-keys","12":"tag-christopher-smith","13":"tag-fenway-park","14":"tag-katie-morrison-oday","15":"tag-marcelo-mayer","16":"tag-masslive","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-orioles","19":"tag-red-sox","20":"tag-top-prospects"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114565090216336001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}