Red Sox eye Bishop Feehan ace Brody Bumila at No. 20

A new mock draft has the Boston Red Sox picking Bishop Feehan left-hander Brody Bumila at No. 20 overall, leaning into the idea of finding a local standout. The projection also spotlights Bumila’s size and velocity, along with concerns about offspeed depth and

For Brody Bumila, the buzz around his fastball has been building for months. Now it’s spilling into the national draft conversation in a way that feels familiar to Massachusetts: a mock draft puts him on the Boston Red Sox’s radar with a top-20 selection.

MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo has Boston taking Bishop Feehan’s Bumila at No. 20 overall in the latest edition of his mock draft. Mayo framed the pick as a home-state swing. writing. “Leaning into the ‘don’t miss the guy in your own backyard’ idea here.” He said Bumila has been racing up boards thanks to “high-octane and unhittable heat” from a 6-foot-9 frame. Mayo also described Bumila as “very fastball-heavy. ” while adding that in his most recent start he showed more changeups and sliders.

Bumila’s rise is coming with eyes on it. The Athletic’s Keith Law said the group of scouts he saw at Bishop Feehan’s matchup against Xaverian last Monday was “as large as I’ve seen at any single game all spring.” Law added that he saw “a half-dozen scouting directors there. ” plus representation from teams with high first-round picks.

On the mound, Bumila’s stat line carried the spotlight and the risk. He struck out 14 batters through the first six innings, but ran into trouble when he walked three in the seventh. Bishop Feehan ultimately won the game in extras after a four-run inning, and Bumila allowed just one hit.

Bumila described what happened with the blunt clarity of a pitcher who has already replayed the inning in his head. “My performance was fine. Just slipped in the last inning,” he said. “But that happens. I just think I went too many pitches. But we got the win after that.”

Law offered a closer look at the pitch mix and what that could mean at the next level. He said Bumila threw fewer than 10 offspeed pitches during the game and described the four-seam fastball as coming from a low three-quarter arm slot. giving it “ride.” Law called Bumila’s upside “tantalizing. ” pointing to “the size. the athleticism. the potential for a 70 or better fastball” as signs of an above-average starter. But he also laid out the question scouts will wrestle with: Law wrote that Bumila “doesn’t seem to have a present average secondary pitch. ” and he said he “can’t predict more durability for him than the average high school arm when he’s already had a UCL injury.”.

Law placed the projection carefully, even while sounding a note of belief in talent. “I see him as a second-rounder,” he said, citing “the tradeoffs between the risk and the reward here.” He added that he still thinks “someone will take him higher than that because he’s left-handed and throws 100.”

Other mock work suggests Bumila won’t be an all-or-nothing storyline even if he doesn’t land at No. 20. ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel had him going in the second round in a mock draft last week, and Bumila is No. 22 on MLB.com’s big board.

Bumila’s stock isn’t just measured in projections. Bishop Feehan enters the stretch with momentum on the field—going 12-7—and is No. 5 in The Boston Globe’s top-20 high school rankings. The team has won three in a row, including the contest with Xaverian.

The draft conversation can turn on one inning. For Bumila, it already did—then it became the reason scouts kept showing up.

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