The Red Sox have signed prospect Kristian Campbell to an eight-year contract extension which runs from 2025 to 2032 with club options for 2033 and 2034. Christopher Smith of MassLive was among those to relay the info. Smith reports that Campbell is guaranteed $60MM. The options are valued at $19MM and $21MM, reports Julian McWilliams of CBS Sports. Per Alex Speier of The Boston Globe, Campbell gets a $2MM signing bonus and a $1MM salary this year. He will then make $2MM, $3MM, $4MM, $6MM, $9MM, $13MM and $16MM in the next seven seasons. There’s a $4MM buyout on the first option. There are also escalators based on awards voting and All-Star selections. Two years ago, Campbell wasn’t a big-name prospect, but that was true four years ago, too. After going undrafted out of high school in 2021, he was asked to redshirt as a freshman at Georgia Tech. While he performed well there in 2023 (1.033 OPS), he also hit only four homers in 45 games before the Red Sox drafted him in the fourth round that year. He then hit just one homer in 22 Minor League games in his pro debut, before appearing on zero Top 100 Prospects lists entering 2024. He was an afterthought in our own review of the 2023 Red Sox Draft class, to be honest, mostly notable for being selected with the pick the Sox gained for the departure of Xander Bogaerts as a free agent to San Diego
