The Red Sox entered Day 3 of the 2024 MLB amateur draft with a plan to have no plan.
After Rounds 3-10 wrapped up Monday, Red Sox amateur scouting director Devin Pearson said the club’s goal was simply to take the best available athlete with each pick.
There wasn’t a plan to selecting specific positions, but the Sox walked away with 14 pitchers, tied with Detroit and Seattle for fourth most in this year’s draft.
“It was kind of where the board fell. But I think as a result of changing just some ways of how we’ve been valuing pitchers, but yeah, it wasn’t a clear ‘We need to draft college pitchers,’ it just kind of felt that way,” Pearson said after the draft concluded.