The second 'Story Camp' underway with members of the Red Sox
Red Sox shortstop is hosting “Story Camp” for the second year in a row in a baseball facility in the Dallas area.
The veteran shortstop is joined by fellow teammates Vaughn Grissom, Triston Casas, Rob Refsnyder, and top Red Sox prospect Roman Anthony.
The players will go through daily workouts, taking swings in the cage, doing weights, doing cardio-related workouts, doing infield drills, and more. While these players will also go through all of these related drills down in Fort Myers in a few weeks, Story believes it’s important to spend time with his teammates ahead of spring training.
“It’s just good to get together in a setting where we can really grind on the details,” Story said to reporters on Tuesday. “There’s a lot of team chemistry stuff that goes on. We just get to be around each other, get to be comfortable, and just build the relationships, man. I think that what the best teams are built on is really good relationships and good communication. It’s nice to start that here and then just have that be something we roll into spring training and into the season, too.”
The players are also sharing tips with each other to help out as much as they can in different areas of their training.
“We can all learn from each other, and we’re always just bouncing ideas off of each other on what makes us successful,” Story said.
Story and Grissom took ground balls up the middle together on Tuesday as they look to gain familiarity with one another. Both players could be the Red Sox double play duo up the middle for the upcoming 2025 season. Both players didn't see much time together in the infield last season as both battled their own specific injuries. The duo played just five games together at the end of the regular season.
“We just haven’t had much time there,” Story said. “I think that’s a big part of the middle infield: being able to be comfortable with your guy up the middle. It’s kind of a by-rep thing. That’s where you get the comfortability, and the communication is from the practice.”
Story is continuing his camp for a second year in a row, mimicking a camp similar to the one former teammate Troy Tulowitzki would host when he was with the Rockies. Once Story joined the Red Sox, he wanted to do something similar in an effort to take on a leadership role with his new team.
"It was something I was kind of coming into in my last couple of years there in Denver," said Story. "It was something I wanted to embrace. I think you have to if you want to be good at it. I had a lot of great leaders that kind of showed me their way, and I've taken different pieces of their style and kind of made it my own. It's definitely something that you have to want to do. I've embraced that, and hopefully some of the guys can feel that."
