Red Sox sidearm prospect leads league in K's; 'I had something to prove'

Red Sox prospect Isaac Coffey doesn't throw hard. That's one of the reasons the 22-year-old right-handed pitcher was unsure if any MLB team would draft him in 2022. He expected to be either a late-round pick at best or an undrafted free agent signee. But the Red Sox selected him at the midway point, taking him in the 10th round (309th overall) out of Oral Roberts. “I don't have the velocity that a lot of guys do,” Coffey said during a recent phone interview with MassLive. “It's very below average velocity. That's for sure. That's something we're working on obviously. But knowing those things, I wasn't expecting even the 10th round. It came as a little bit of a surprise for me. But that was pretty

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