Nick Yorke, Boston Red Sox 2020 first-round draft pick, introduced to pros at 18: 'I didn't know a ball could move like that'

Red Sox top pitching prospect Bryan Mata was the first pitcher who 2020 first-round draft pick Nick Yorke faced at Boston’s alternate training site in Pawtucket. That first pitch he threw to me, he threw for a ball, but I was like, ‘I didn’t know a ball could move like that,'” Yorke said during a Zoom call Monday. Yorke — who the Red Sox selected 17th overall in June — has gone 3-for-4 with two doubles and two walks since Boston added him to its 60-player pool and assigned him to the alternate t...

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