Did anyone else have a Trevor Story renaissance season on their bingo card for 2025?
In addition to a red hot season at the plate as well as a flashy season with the leather, Story has now made history in his 10th major league season.
On Tuesday night during his team’s 2-1 loss to Oakland (71-80), the shortstop stole his 30th bag of the season, setting a new career high as well as tying an American League record for consecutive bases stolen without being caught to start a season.
Story’s mark from Tuesday ties a mark set by Carl Crawford in 2009, when he went 30 for 30 to start the season while still playing good baseball for the Rays (73-77). That high level of play ceased to exist as soon as Crawford arrived in Boston in 2011, but that's a different story for a different day.
With 11 games remaining in the regular season, Story has plenty of time to surpass the four-time All-Star.
I said it my debut column for Roundtable and I’ll say it again here:
I refuse to take what Trevor Story is doing offensively for granted.
We know how injured he’s been since arriving in Boston (82-69), and we know how bad he was to start the season. Heck, I had a colleague at WEEI ranking Story’s contract as one of the most regrettable deals in all of Boston sports since the start of the 2020s.
But with how well Story has looked across the board this season, this team needs their 32-year-old shortstop to continue channeling the player he once was on a consistent basis for the Rockies throughout the first six years of his career.
If not for the season Jacob deGrom (12-7, 2.82) was having for the Rangers (79-72) as he returns from his second career Tommy John surgery, Story would be the shoo-in to win the AL Comeback Player of the Year.
In 2024, Story suffered a season-ending left shoulder injury on April 5 after a diving play, which involved a dislocated shoulder, torn labrum, and a fractured glenoid rim. He underwent surgery to repair the injury and was placed on the 60-day injured list. He returned from the injured list on September 7, playing in only 26 games to close out a lost year.
deGrom, on the other hand, is returning from his second career Tommy John surgery, which he underwent in June of 2023 after making only six starts in his first season with Texas. Before the surgery, he had experienced other injuries, including a UCL tear in 2021 and a shoulder stress reaction in 2022, which shortened his final seasons with the Mets (77-73). It took him until September of last year to return to the mound.
This year, he’s looked like the deGrom of old, so much so that he was selected to his fifth career All-Star game in his 12th season in the bigs. At last check, he’s currently a -950 favorite to win the award.
Those odds tell you Story has no shot. But it doesn’t mean he’s not deserving.
Tom Carroll is a contributor for Roundtable, with boots-on-the-ground coverage of all things Boston sports. He's a digital content producer for WEEI.com, and a native of Lincoln, RI.