Second baseman/outfielder Kristian Campbell of the Boston Red Sox has been voted the American League Rookie of the Month for March/April, and second baseman Luisangel Acuña of the New York Mets has been voted the National League Rookie of the Month for March/April. The announcements were made earlier today on MLB Network.
Campbell became the first Red Sox rookie to win a monthly award since Triston Casas won in July 2023. Overall he is Boston’s 11th player to earn the honor, joining Kevin Youkilis (May 2004); Jonathan Papelbon (April 2006); Hideki Okajima (April 2007); Dustin Pedroia (May 2007); Jacoby Ellsbury (September 2007); Jose Iglesias (June 2013); Andrew Benintendi (August 2017); Michael Chavis (May 2019); Bobby Dalbec (August 2021); and Casas. Acuña, who joins his older brother Ronald as an NL Rookie of the Month winner (August 2018), is the first Mets rookie to take home monthly honors since his teammate Francisco Alvarez won in July 2023. Overall, Acuña is the sixth Met to win the award, joining Pete Alonso (3x, April, June & September 2019); Jacob deGrom (July & September 2014); Alvarez; Steven Matz (May 2016); and Justin Turner (May 2011). Along with Alonso winning NL Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet for March/April, it marks the first time in history that the Mets claimed NL Player and Rookie of the Month in the same month.
Kristian Campbell, Boston Red Sox (@k.camp2)
The 22-year-old hit .301 (31-for-103) with four homers, 12 RBI, eight doubles, 19 walks, 18 runs scored, two stolen bases, a .407 on-base percentage, a .495 slugging percentage and a .902 OPS in his first 29 career games to begin 2025.
Campbell led all qualified rookies in on-base percentage, doubles, walks, runs scored and extra-base hits; ranked second in slugging, OPS, hits (31) and total bases (51); tied for second in homers; tied for third in RBI; ranked fifth in batting average; and tied for fifth in stolen bases.
The fourth-round selection in the 2023 MLB Draft reached base in each of his first 17 career games, hitting .328 (19-for-58) with three homers, six RBI, four doubles, 10 walks, 11 runs scored, a stolen base, and a .420 on-base percentage. His streak is the second-longest to begin a career in Red Sox history, behind George Scott’s 26-game streak from April 12-May 14, 1966 and the longest to begin a career by any big leaguer since Nolan Schanuel reached in each of his first 30 career games for the Angels from August 18, 2023-March 28, 2024.
The Georgia Tech product tallied 11 multi-hit games, the most among all rookies and tied for 10th-most in the Majors. Campbell had two hits in three of his final four games to end the month, reaching base a career-high five times and scoring a career-high four runs on April 27th at Cleveland. He became the sixth Red Sox player (seventh occurrence) under the age of 23 to score at least four runs and reach base safely five times in a game and first since Benintendi on July 4, 2017.
Campbell became the first player under the age of 23 to make his Major League debut in the Red Sox Opening Day starting lineup since 22-year-old Jackie Bradley Jr. in 2013. At 22 years and 272 days old, he became the Red Sox youngest Opening Day starter since Joe Lahoud (20.362) in 1968 and youngest Red Sox to make his debut on Opening Day and start at second base since Ted Lepcio in 1952 (22.262).
Luisangel Acuña, New York Mets (@luisangelacuna)
The 23-year-old hit .288 (21-for-73) with three RBI, five doubles, six walks, 13 runs scored, seven stolen bases, a .342 on-base percentage and a .698 OPS in his first 27 games of the year.
The Venezuela native ranked second among qualified rookies in stolen bases; sixth in batting average; seventh in on-base percentage; tied for seventh in hits and doubles; eighth in runs scored; and 10th in OPS.
The versatile infielder became the ninth Met under the age of 24 with at least 20 hits in the opening month of the season and the first since Michael Conforto had 27 hits to begin 2016. He is just the fourth player of the group to have at least 20 hits and five stolen bases, joining José Reyes 2006 – 25 H & 11 SB); Darryl Strawberry (1984 – 24 H & 6 SB); and David Wright (2006 – 27 H & 6 SB).
After making his debut with the Mets last September en route to a trip to the NLCS, Acuña finished his first full month in the Majors with a hit in 13 of his final 16 games in April in which he had an at-bat, batting .339 (19-for-56) with four doubles and 11 runs scored during the stretch. He hit safely in nine consecutive games from April 8th21st and reached base safely in a career-best 12 consecutive games in which he had a plate appearance from April 7th-23rd, boasting a .409 on-base percentage during the stretch.
He tallied his first career stolen base on March 29th at Houston, entering the game as a pinch-runner in the eighth inning, and was successful in each of his first six stolen base attempts to begin 2025 after being caught in his first career attempt last year. His five stolen bases without being caught were the most in a 20-game stretch starting on Opening Day by a Met aged 23-or-younger since Wright in 2006 (6 SB).
Others receiving votes for AL Rookie of the Month included outfielder Kameron Misner (.320, 3 HR, 11 RBI, 7 2B, 1 3B, 6 BB, 14 R, 1 SB) of the Tampa Bay Rays; shortstop Jacob Wilson (.325, 3 HR, 15 RBI, 6 2B, 2 BB, 16 R, 1 SB) of the Athletics; and starting pitcher Shane Smith (1-1, 2.23 ERA, 6 GS, 32.1 IP, 23 H, 1 HR, 12 BB, 26 SO) of the White Sox.
Others receiving votes for NL Rookie of the Month included starting pitcher Chad Patrick (1-2, 2.45 ERA, 6 G, 5 GS, 25.2 IP, 23 H, 3 HR, 11 BB, 22 SO) of the Milwaukee Brewers; reliever Ben Casparius (3-0, 2.91 ERA, 11 G, 1 GS, 21.1 IP, 17 H, 1 HR, 3 BB, 23 SO) and starting pitcher Roki Sasaki (0-1, 3.55 ERA, 6 GS, 25.1 IP, 18 H, 3 HR, 18 BB, 20 SO) of the Los Angeles Dodgers; infielder Thomas Saggese (.341, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 4 2B, 2 BB, 4 R) of the St. Louis Cardinals; reliever Lake Bachar (1-0, 1.69 ERA, 13 G, 16.0 IP, 6 H, 1 HR, 8 BB, 16 SO), catcher Agustín Ramírez (.290, 3 HR, 5 RBI, 4 2B, 2 BB, 5 R, 1 SB, .710 SLG), catcher Liam Hicks (.254, 1 HR, 15 RBI, 3 2B, 6 BB, 6 R), outfielder Griffin Conine (.281, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 7 2B, 7 BB, 10 R), and first baseman/outfielder Eric Wagaman (.247, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 6 2B, 7 BB, 15 R, 1 SB) of the Miami Marlins; and catcher Drake Baldwin (.250, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 2 2B, 6 BB, 4 R) of the Atlanta Braves.