Red Sox prospect Mikey Romero focused on coming into 2025 a ‘different dude’ following an offseason of training and not rehab
Red Sox prospect Mikey Romero took a major step forward in 2024, displaying flashes of power and defense as he split time between High-A Greenville and Double-A Portland.
This past year Romero was healthy, playing in 78 games in the Sox’ system, slashing .271/.312/.509 with 16 homers, including six for the Sea Dogs in 16 games before the season came to a close.
Romero is setting his sights high as he looks towards 2025; knowing the Red Sox have the “Big 4” in Roman Anthony, Kyle Teel, Marcelo Mayer, and Kristian Campbell, he wants to challenge and be part of that conversation.
“We have a Big Four with [Kristian] Campbell, Roman [Anthony], Marcelo [Mayer], and [Kyle] Teel,” Romero said to Boston Globe’s Alex Speier. “They’re getting all the recognition. Obviously, those guys deserve it. They’re studs.
“But it kind of just gives me time to put my head down and work. So I’m pretty excited to go into this offseason. The amount of hunger I have to train my tail off and really come back a different dude in 2025, I’m really confident in that.”
Romero finished his second full season of pro baseball, coming back from a back issue that shut him down last August. The Orange Lutheran High School (Orange, Calif.) product finished a short rehab assignment in the Florida Complex League before rejoining Greenville in mid-May. From there, Romero was locked in offensively and defensively, providing a spark to both the Drive and Sea Dogs’ lineup.
The 20-year-old talented infielder knows what he is capable of, his potential, and his growth as a person on and off the baseball field.
“I know what I'm capable of doing,” said Romero on The Pesky Report Podcast, presented by Beyond the Monster. “As far as the injuries, I've just grown so much just as a person, just in my faith and my and in just everything, every aspect of life. I've grown a lot as a person.
“I wouldn't want it any other way because I know that for the rest of my career, the routine that I have daily now to get ready to play baseball is going to be something that I do for the next, however many, hopefully very long years that I'm playing. I mean, it was frustrating just because, you know, I know what I'm capable of doing on the field. And just when you're not able to do that because of, you know, discomfort or pain or whatever you're going through, it's definitely frustrating just because you were the first rounder; you're supposed to be the guy, and you were unable to be.”
Romero should begin the 2025 campaign by calling Hadlock Field home with the Sea Dogs. He projects as the starting shortstop for Portland, according to SoxProspects, and will be relied on as one of the key pieces in the lineup along with Blaze Jordan, Bryan Gonzalez, and Jhostynxon Garcia.
With his injuries behind him and a successful finish to the regular season, Romero will turn his attention to getting married this November, and then it’s back to baseball.
“I think we're just kind of at the tip of the iceberg, really, with what I'm capable of,” added Romero. “I can't wait for the off-season because I'm going to just put on a bunch of muscle and get ready for next year. I just haven't really had that full off-season where I've been able to just train, put my head down, and really pump the weights.
‘’Ive been rehabbing a lot throughout the past two off-seasons. So, just really looking forward to that and looking forward to seeing what I can really do next year as well.”
