I’ll make this short and sweet, because this prediction was so obvious at the time that I’m not even all that proud of it. On June 24, I wrote that not only was Roman Anthony about to break out, but that I believed he was the best hitter on the Red Sox (though there was an Alex Bregman injury caveat applied to the latter assertion). At that time, Anthony was hitting .128/.308/.256 with 2 doubles and 1 homer through the first 13 games of his career.
Since June 24, Anthony has put up a slash line of .