New mock draft has Pink Sox taking a Massachusetts native with 14th total choose

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Matt Shaw was named MVP of the Cape Cod Baseball League throughout the 2022 season.

Maryland's Matt Shaw during an NCAA baseball game on Sunday, March 10, 2023, in College Park, Md.
Matt Shaw batted .341 and hit 24 house runs in 62 video games with Maryland this season. (AP Picture/Gail Burton)

The newest MLB mock draft launched by The Athletic’s Keith Regulation has the Pink Sox focusing on an area product with the No. 14 choose within the first spherical. 

Regulation predicts that the Pink Sox will choose Maryland infielder Matt Shaw with their first-round choice, giving Boston one other plus bat so as to add to their farm system.

The Shaw household would doubtless be thrilled if Boston got here calling subsequent month, because the Terrapin shortstop initially hails from Brimfield and performed at Worcester Academy for 4 seasons.

In 62 video games with Maryland this season, Shaw batted .341 with 24 house runs and 69 RBI. He was awarded the 2023 Brooks Wallace Award as the highest collegiate shortstop within the nation.

Shaw raised his inventory considerably final summer season throughout his tenure with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

In one of many nation’s premier collegiate summer season leagues, Shaw was named Cape League MVP after batting .360 with 5 house runs and 21 stolen bases. Alongside along with his spectacular particular person achievements, he helped lead Bourne to a CCBL championship.

“Shaw is among the finest hitters within the school class, with onerous contact and energy, however must play someplace apart from shortstop,” Regulation stated of Shaw’s recreation. “He’s one in every of many school bats I’ve heard linked to Boston, together with Troy and Taylor, all of whom are good batted-ball information guys in addition to hitters scouts consider will proceed to hit in professional ball.”

If Boston does choose Shaw, a swap to a different infield place does make sense, on condition that Marcelo Mayer is projected because the crew’s shortstop of the longer term.

However with Shaw logging video games at second and third throughout his freshman marketing campaign at Maryland, Boston may boast a stacked infield within the coming years with him, Mayer and Nick Yorke.

The primary spherical of the 2023 MLB Draft will likely be held on July 9 in Seattle.

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