After a breakout campaign at just 23 years old in 2023, Triston Casas looked to be a future cornerstone for the Boston Red Sox. Even after a rib cartilage injury derailed his 2024 season, 13 homers and a 120 wRC+ seemed to solidify his standing as a future solution, as long as he could stay healthy.
But s`evere struggles over the first several weeks of 2025 ensued, followed by a devastating injury when a ruptured patellar tendon prematurely ended another campaign. It seemed that Casas was skating on thin ice once the winter began. The notion that he might not be ready to return to action at the start of spring training didn't help, but that alone shouldn't have been the death knell to his Red Sox career.