After growing up Red Sox fan, Finley embracing pinstripes

Most 20-year-olds are still in college, trying to decide what to do with their lives beyond those four years. But Drew Finley isn’t like most 20-year-olds.

Finley’s life has always revolved around baseball. Whether it was the baseball games he participated in or the various Spring Training camps he attended with his father, it was always nonstop baseball, and it still is nonstop.

Finley, pitching for Class A Short-Season Staten Island, and his family used to joke that he may play in the pinstripes one day. But it wasn’t for the usual reasons someone would think, because Finley grew up rooting against the Yankees.

David Finley, Drew’s father, worked for the Red Sox for 13 seasons, so the entire Finley household grew up fans of the Yanks’ archrival. David also had a short-lived Minor League career in Oakland’s system, and he now works for the Dodgers as the vice president of amateur and international scouting. But when the 2015 Draft rolled around, it was time to get down to business.

Finley hoped to be drafted by a reputable organization — a place his father had no ties to — and he couldn’t have dreamed of a better club.

“The whole Red Sox thing was in my persona, but I wanted to be drafted by the Yankees,” he said. “[My family] always joked around when my dad was with the Red Sox saying, ‘Oh, Drew’s going to …

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