The Boston Red Sox were docked their second-round pick as a result of the sign-stealing investigation from the 2018 season, but still managed to find three talented players to close out Day 2 of the MLB Draft.
With their third-round pick, the Sox took OF Blaze Jordan out of a Mississippi High School.
.@RedSox draft pick Blaze Jordan: great name, great power. 💪 #MLBDraft pic.twitter.com/Pcwb4hsE9p
— MLB (@MLB) June 12, 2020
From his MLB Draft profile:
“Few players in the 2020 Draft can do more damage to a baseball than Jordan, whose legend began to grow when he won his first national home run derby at age 11 and belted a pair of 500-foot homers at another when he was 13. His combination of impressive strength and bat speed allows him to hit mammoth blasts without a lot of loft in his right-handed stroke, and he recorded the highest exit velocity (106.9 mph) at the World Wood Bat Association World Championship in October.”
In the fourth round, the Sox selected Jeremy Wu-Yelland out of Hawaii.
The pick is in! @jeremyelland selected by the @RedSox in the 4th round.#GoBows pic.twitter.com/yUYC5g7N8y
— Hawaii Baseball (@HawaiiBaseball) June 12, 2020
From Chad Jennings of ‘The Athletic:’
Undrafted out of high school, Wu-Yelland made an impression with a 3.16 ERA in the Cape Cod League last year, and he was off to a strong start before this college season was shut down in March (one earned run in 13 innings, six strikeouts in four scoreless innings against Vanderbilt). He was ranked as the country’s 12th-best college reliever by D1Baseball.com. Baseball America’s scouting report has his fastball at 91-94 mph, topping out at 96, with a breaking ball and a changeup.
And finally, the Sox took LHP Shane Drohan out of Florida State in the fifth round.
Per Jennings:
Online scouting reports for Drohan describe a low-90s fastball with a curveball and changeup. Control could be an issue, but it was said on MLB Network that Drohan might also have more upside than a typical college left-hander. Drohan was ranked as the 147th draft prospect by MLB.com and 189th by Baseball America, but Baseball America noted that he was ranked 106th coming out of high school.
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