{"id":543321,"date":"2026-01-29T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/543321\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:51:15","slug":"red-sox-actually-have-a-different-marcelo-mayer-truth-than-most-boston-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/543321\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox actually have a different Marcelo Mayer truth than most Boston projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> fans are excited to see Marcelo Mayer play this season.<\/p>\n<p>The former top prospect is lined up to start at either second or third base, especially after Alex Bregman&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Except the expectation might be slightly different than reality, according to beat writer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/2016557272915202402\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Cotillo of MassLive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what he posted on X on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One small thing that is off in the public roster discourse is &#8220;They add someone at 2B or 3B and Mayer plays the other spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real truth there will be: &#8220;&#8221;They add someone at 2B or 3B and Mayer and Romy platoon at the other spot.&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7iExLR5VeR\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/7iExLR5VeR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/2016557272915202402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\/news\/how-guardians-jose-ramirez-pace-cleveland-derek-jeter\/4f853a182bc8cfe42b7f0aa7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland&#8217;s Derek Jeter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayer bats left-handed, while Gonzalez hits from the right side.<\/p>\n<p>If Boston added no one else, they both might start every day.<\/p>\n<p>But if the Red Sox traded for a second baseman, like Nico Hoerner or Brendan Donovan, it would set up a Mayer-Gonzalez platoon.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\/news\/reds-newest-lhp-acquisition-admits-sleepwalks\/cfe36518289779c3ff068ee9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reds&#8217; new pitcher admits that he sleepwalks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That would be sound strategy, because Gonzalez crushes left-handed pitching.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Gonzalez had a .978 specifically against southpaw pitching. Boston will certainly find a way to get him in lineups against lefties, and a platoon with Mayer, at least in the early going, would indeed make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox fans are excited to see Marcelo Mayer play this season. The former top prospect is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-543321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115975886209894206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543321","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=543321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}