Before the scholastic baseball season started, Jason Groome said he wanted to get to the majors as soon as possible and end up in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“I’m thinking big,” Groome said in March. “My goal is to be a top-three pick in the draft. But getting drafted is not the last stop. I want to be in the big leagues for as long as I can, and the last stop is being a Hall of Famer.”
The 17-year-old, left-handed pitcher from Barnegat has cleared the first hurdle toward fulfilling that dream.
At Major League Baseball’s Studio 42 in Secaucus on June 9, Groome was selected by the Boston Red Sox with the 12th…
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