He’s Roman Joseph Anthony, and the Red Sox drafted him in the second round of the 2022 draft, via a pick they earned as compensation for losing Eduardo Rodriguez in free agency. Anthony came out of Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida which, yes, is that Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School in that Parkland, Florida. Anthony was not yet a student there when the school became the site of a gruesome shooting that galvanized a massive wave of advocacy for stricter gun control laws which has somehow had absolutely no effect whatsoever on actually implementing stricter gun control laws.
Meet The New Guy: Roman Anthony
