The Boston Red Sox on April 7 traded pitcher Quinn Priester to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfield prospect Yophery Rodriguez and a Competitive Balance round pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. Boston completed the trade with its selection on July 13.
The Red Sox selected right-handed pitcher Marcus Phillips with the No. 33 pick. He's the second pitcher Boston snagged early in the 2025 draft — it selected Kyson Witherspoon with its first-round pick, the first pitcher it's taken in the first round since Tanner Houck in the 2017 draft. Sixteen of Craig Breslow's 22 draft picks as the Red Sox's chief baseball officer have been pitchers (per Christopher Smith of MassLive), one of the greatest indicators of the former reliever's emphasis on revitalizing Boston's pitching program.