As the Red Sox’s newest draftee Mikey Romero begins his ascent through the team’s farm system, he’ll have a familiar face cheering him on (and maybe even filling the infield with him): Last year’s first-round pick Marcelo Mayer.
Mayer and Romero are friends and have known each other for years. Both came up playing in elite circuits, and both played high-school baseball in California — Mayer at Eastlake HS in Chula Vista near the border and Romero at Orange Lutheran, a little over an hour north near Los Angeles.
When news broke that the Red Sox took Romero in the first round, Mayer took to Twitter right away.