The 2025 Red Sox are poised to be an improved team this summer — especially after offseason additions, including Alex Bregman, Garrett Crochet, and Walker Buehler. 

But for all of Boston’s pickups this winter, the true determinant of this roster’s ceiling might hinge on whether the team’s wave of blue-chip prospects can make a sizable impact at the big-league level in 2025.

Even though Boston’s “big three” prospects Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony, and Marcelo Mayer logged a total of 201 at-bats at the Triple-A level last summer (including zero for an injured Mayer), top Red Sox brass seem willing to give this young crop of talent every opportunity to make a push for the MLB roster out of spring training. 

“I was against talking about the kids a few years ago,” Alex Cora said of Campbell and Co. earlier this month. “Now, it doesn’t matter. We’re in a spot where they’re here. There’s no age limit to make it to the big leagues. You can make it at 20, you can make it at 32. 

“They did an outstanding job last year.  … We don’t have to hide it. The cool thing about them is they’re very humble, too. They understand how it goes. They’re fun to be around. We’ll have fun with it and they know it. They’re prepared.”

The case can be made that a 22-year-old second baseman like Campbell could earn a spot with the Red Sox as soon as April — even though the presence of Bregman might complicate matters. 

But while speaking with reporters in Fort Myers, Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas pushed back against a scenario where some of the “big three” break camp with Boston in late March.

“No,” Casas said when asked if he would have Campbell, Anthony, or Mayer on the Opening Day roster if he was running the team. “I think we’ve got some grown men up there right now that need to iron some things out. 

“We need to show up and see what that first little taste of us altogether looks like. I think their time is going to come. And it could be earlier rather than later. But I think for right now the roster is beautiful. It’s organized great. And it’s structured really well.”

Bregman’s arrival does take some of the pressure on Campbell to make the Red Sox roster out of camp, while Anthony should have ample time to get more seasoning in Worcester with an outfield trio of Jarren Duran, Wilyer Abreu, and Ceddanne Rafaela in place with Boston.

But even if Campbell and Anthony open the year in Triple-A, Casas believes that Boston’s next wave of talent has the means to make an impact at some point during the 2025 campaign. 

“I look back on that time in ’22 and ’23 and I just had so many worries all the time,” Casas said. “Things (were) going to work out for themselves if I played my game. I think they are way ahead of the curve. They’ve heard it from all of us.”