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Red Sox make shocking selection at No. 17 overall in MLB Draft

View of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays, and of the Green Monster left-field wall, from the upper deck at Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994. American baseball player Joe Carter is at bat for the Blue Jays. (Photo by Photo File/Getty Images)

The Red Sox draft Nick Yorke in the first round of the MLB draft.

Well, nobody saw this coming. We saw a number of different options projected to go to the Boston Red Sox at No. 17 overall in the 2020 MLB draft but Nick Yorke wasn’t one of them.