Roman Anthony burst onto the national scene in late 2024 as he took the top spot on both the MLB Pipeline list and Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects list. Anthony, a standout high school athlete, impressed the Red Sox enough to select him with the No. 79 overall pick in 2022. Anthony helped Marcelo Mayer spearhead a new identity for the Red Sox’s elite prospects and played at a level that validated the growing national attention in recent years. Now, he’s on the brink of making his MLB debut in 2025, with a chance to put Boston in a competitive position.

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Anthony thrived in a strong program at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The school had produced some great players before him, but the future Red Sox prospect had received the attention of high school coaches for many years. Anthony’s natural talent and timely achievements strengthened his baseball club throughout his high school career and peaked in the spring of 2022. That was the moment Fitz-Gerald knew that a special player was going to take the professional path. The entire season. It was big hit after big hit. Key moment after key moment. It’s about throwing a kid off a plate with a large amount of money. Guys like Roman Anthony don’t come around as high school coaches very often.

All of those qualities of person and player have accompanied Anthony as he grew up in the Red Sox system. He struggled from the start before a fantastic 2023 season, when he rose through three levels of the lower leagues with 14 home runs and an OPS just under .900. He racked up accolades within the organization and followed that up with a strong 2024, as he finished the season at Triple-A Worcester. Anthony’s numbers say it all, but the Red Sox see much more in him than that especially for a young man just 20 years old.