Drafted: Fifth Round, 2008 (Portsmouth, RI)
Height: 6′2″; Weight: 195 lbs
Born: April 27, 1990
This is where I choose to slot Westmoreland. While his future is in question following his recent surgery, his talent is too great to ignore…but there are too many questions in play to slot him ahead of Kelly, Reddick, or Kalish.
Westmoreland drew relatively little interest as a high school senior due to a plethora of reasons… but the Sox drafted him in the fifth round nonetheless. The ballclub realized the gamble paid off after Ryan hit .557 for the Bayside Yankees, one of the nation’s top amateur teams, during the summer of 2008. They paid him $2 million in a signing bonus to get him under contract prior to the Aug. 15 signing deadline…Vanderbilt Universit ...
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