With the 12th overall pick in the 2016 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, the Boston Red Sox selected MLB.com’s top-ranked prospect, left-handed pitcher Jason Groome, from Barnegat High School in New Jersey.
There exist a myriad of questions and trepidations surrounding Groome that were deemed problematic enough for his precipitous descent to the 12th selection, which will be addressed and scrutinized later on in this piece.
For what it’s worth, in a family chock full of Yankee fans, Groome’s favorite baseball team is the Red Sox:
“I’ve just taken them as my best team,” Groome told MLB.