Red Sox select Ryan Ammons with 10th-round pick

With the 298th overall pick in the 2023 MLB First-Year Player Draft, the Red Sox selected Ryan Ammons, a left-handed pitcher out of Clemson University.

Ammons opened the 2023 season as Clemson's Friday night starter and made two starts for the Tigers before missing nearly two months with a left forearm strain. Upon returning to action in late April, the 22-year-old southpaw was used strictly out of the bullpen, pitching to a 5.40 ERA with seven strikeouts to five walks across 10 innings of relief. 

Coming into the spring, Ammons had forged a 4.55 ERA with 49 strikeouts to 20 walks over 34 relief appearances (31 2/3 innings) in his first three seasons at Clemson. The 6-foot, 205-pound southpaw has experience closing games and works with a fastball that reaches 94 mph as well as a solid breaking ball, per our own Ian Cundall. 

A redshirt junior out of South Carolina, Ammons is the second lefty to be selected by Boston in this draft, joining a fellow ACC product in Virginia's Connelly Early. The slot value for the 298th overall pick is $167,900.