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The Red Sox just picked up one of the fastest players in baseball

One of MLB’s fastest players — if not the fastest — is coming to Boston.

The Red Sox announced Friday afternoon that they had claimed speedster outfielder Tim Locastro off waivers from the New York Yankees.

Locastro, a 29-year-old who has played with Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Yankees, is perhaps best known breaking Tim Raines’s record for the most consecutive stolen bases to begin a career — at 28.

He extended the streak to 29 before he was caught for the first time this past April.