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- Updated: August 23, 2016
Away from the spotlight, in the virtual anonymity that the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League provides, the top left-handed pitching prospect in baseball took his first steps forward in his pro career on Monday afternoon.
Jason Groome, the Red Sox’s first-round pick who was ranked No. 1 on MLBPipeline.com’s Top 200 Draft Prospects list at the time of the Draft in June, threw his first two professional innings at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla., and he certainly didn’t show any signs of competitive rust.
Groome, currently ranked No. 36 on the overall Top 100 list, threw a pair of shutout innings against the GCL Rays. The southpaw allowed just one hit — a two-out double from Jonathon Arrowoood — while walking none and striking out three. He wasted no time settling in, getting …
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