Red Sox 2025 third-rounder nearly unhittable at High-A to begin career
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Anthony Eyanson’s professional career is off to a roaring start.
Eyanson -- the Red Sox No. 10 prospect and Boston’s third-round pick in the 2025 Draft -- fired five scoreless frames in his start on Saturday night for High-A Greenville. The 21-year-old right-hander scattered two hits and walked none while notching five strikeouts in the 4-0 Drive win over the Bowling Green Hot Rods (Rays) at Fluor Field.
In three starts this season, Eyanson has pitched to an 0.73 ERA with 18 strikeouts across 12 1/3 innings. The opposition is hitting just .122 against him, with the lone run on his ledger coming via a solo home run.
This is the sort of dominance that Eyanson displayed in his final collegiate season at LSU. A transfer from UC San Diego, he went 12-2 with a 3.00 ERA in his lone year in the SEC, racking up 152 strikeouts in 108 innings while helping steer the Tigers to a national championship.
It may be a bit before Red Sox fans see Eyanson in the Majors, given MLB Pipeline lists his ETA to the big leagues as 2028. But he is carving up the Minors with the help of two plus breaking ball shapes, including a 65-grade slider that induces plenty of chase and complements his heater.
Boston nabbed Eyanson in the third round of last year's Draft with a near double-slot signing bonus of $1.75 million.