WORCESTER – The statistical results of Kristian Campbell’s first 67 career games with the Red Sox look less than ideal: a .223 batting average, .664 OPS, and 27.4% strikeout rate. Within that, a .304 average and .902 OPS between March and April – which earned him American League Rookie of the Month – followed by 22 May games in which he managed to hit only .134 with a .355 OPS, and 16 June games in which he batted .205 with a .658 OPS before the Red Sox optioned him to Triple-A Worcester.

But much like the scene in “The Office” in which Michael Scott, played to perfection by Steve Carell, tells an interviewer that his greatest weaknesses as a manager are caring too much, working too hard, and being too invested in his job, many of the character traits that drove Campbell’s first foray int

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