Boston Red Sox pitching prospect Jay Groome eager to contribute

Boston Red Sox lefty pitching prospect Jay Groome is eager to take the mound and contribute to the team in the near future.

An already thin rotation took another hit yesterday, as the Boston Red Sox announced that Chris Sale would undergo Tommy John surgery. Unless you were living in a cave (and incidentally some of us are right now… metaphorically of course), most Sox fans knew that it was only a matter of time before Sale underwent the knife.

That leaves a rotation of Eduardo Rodriguez, Nathan Eovaldi, Martin Perez, and a bunch of unknowns. Eovaldi and E-Rod were impressive this spring before things got shut down, but having two excellent pitchers doesn’t mean squat when you need a…