Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Enjoy your day, and here’s a profile on a Red Sox prospect you may not have heard of… but you will soon…
Dubbed one of the top pitchers in the Midwest, Brock Huntzinger has a bright future ahead of him as a Boston Red Sox farmhand.
Drafted in the third round of the 2007 amateur draft, Huntzinger bypassed college to join a minor league system teeming with prospects, its latest successes being Clay Buchholz, Jacoby Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia.
Prior to being drafted, Huntzinger had an astounding 0.29 ERA in high school to go along with a 7-1 record, 95 strikeouts and only seven walks. He led the Pendelton Heights Arabians to the conference title and ended his high school career having whiffed 257 batters in 201 total innings.
Hailing from Pendleton Heights, Ind., Huntzinger had plans to attend Indiana University and would only bypass those plans if he got enough money to make it worth it to give up college and an education. He found the Red Sox were willing to provide that money, a reported $225,000.
Several teams besides the Red Sox were interested in Huntzinger. The Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins Philadelphia Phillies and Boston
