Before we get into draft boards and slot values and organizational needs, let's start with something simpler.
There is a 6-foot-9 left-handed pitcher from Raynham, Massachusetts who throws 101 miles per hour, just won a state basketball championship, and is striking out high school hitters at a rate that makes scouts from across the country drive to Attleboro on cold April nights just to stand in the parking lot with radar guns.
His name is Brody Bumila and he goes to Bishop Feehan High School. And if you are a Red Sox fan — or honestly, just a New Englander who loves baseball — you should find a way to watch this kid pitch before July 11.
Because after July 11, he may not be yours to claim anymore.
Red Sox could target local pitcher Brody Bumila in 2026 MLB Draft
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Bumila grew up in Raynham, which is not exactly a traditional baseball hotbed. He was 6-foot-3 and 160 pounds as a freshman. He committed to the University of Texas, one of the premier programs in the country, before most people in Massachusetts had heard his name. And then, quietly, he kept growing. Kept throwing harder. Kept getting better. By the time the 2026 draft cycle opened, the kid from Raynham had become the most-talked-about prep pitching prospect in New England since Tom Glavine walked off a mound in Billerica.
This past March, he led the 14th-seeded Bishop Feehan Shamrocks on one of the most improbable runs in MIAA basketball history — averaging 40 points and 20 rebounds over five playoff games, capping it with 44 points, 29 rebounds in the championship game. Six days later, he was on a baseball diamond for his first start of the spring, with dozens of major league scouts braving 40-degree weather to watch him throw.
If that doesn't make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, you're reading the wrong article.
What you see when watching him
Through 27 innings this spring, Bumila has struck out 69 batters — and on May 8, he reached a level that stopped the baseball world cold. In a complete game no-hitter against Moses Brown, he struck out 20 batters, breaking a 60-year-old school record previously held by Mike Walsh, who fanned 19 for the Shamrocks back in 1966. Ben Badler of Baseball America posted the clip live and called it out in real time. Bumila has been, by every measurable standard, virtually unhittable at the high school level.
When The Boston Globe reporter Brendan Kurie made the trip to Taunton to watch him pitch in person — joining the dozen or so radar guns already trained on Bumila's every delivery — here is what he found: "His motion is smooth and repeatable. The ball jumps from his hand out of a low arm slot." In five perfect innings against Taunton, he struck out 12 of the 15 batters he faced, threw 66 pitches with 48 strikes, and sat 95-98 while touching 101 miles per hour. He didn't walk a single batter.
As a former pitcher, the thing that gets me most about Bumila isn't the velocity, although 101 from a left-handed high schooler is legitimately jaw-dropping. It's the mechanics. At 6-foot-9, you brace yourself for what scouts call the "baby deer" problem: big, young pitchers with long levers who can't repeat their delivery because their body hasn't caught up to their size. Hips fire early. The landing spot wanders. The timing falls apart.
Bumila doesn't have that problem. His body rotates cleanly around his center of gravity with a consistent landing spot that's rare for a pitcher this young and this big. The hip-to-shoulder separation is there. The ground force is there. The arm action is clean and healthy. When I watch him, I see a pitcher whose movement patterns are already built for repeatability and durability — not a prospect who needs years of mechanical overhaul just to stay on the mound. That means a lot when you're projecting a high school arm to professional baseball.
The Draft picture
Baseball America jumped him 51 spots in their April rankings update — from No. 69 to No. 18 overall — the single largest rise of any prospect in the 2026 class. He is now the No. 2 prep pitcher in the country. His fastball already generates 19 to 20 inches of induced vertical break — a number that would rank near the top of major league leaderboards. MaxPreps called him "Randy Johnson-esque" in April, and it wasn't a casual comparison.
Johnson was 6-foot-10, threw from a low arm slot, generated elite induced vertical break, and struck out hitters with a fastball-changeup combination that hitters simply could not time. Bumila is 6-foot-9, throws from a low three-quarters slot, generates the same elite break, and sat 95-98 while mixing in what The Boston Globe described as "a devastating 81-mph changeup." The comp has teeth.
And here's the part that will give Red Sox fans chills: on May 8, 2001 — exactly 25 years to the day of Bumila's 20-strikeout no-hitter — Randy Johnson struck out 20 batters in nine innings against the Cincinnati Reds, one of only four pitchers in MLB history to accomplish that feat. Every week there is a new Bumila clip, a new performance, a new reason the conversation around him gets louder. On May 8, it was 20 strikeouts and a no-hitter.
The last Massachusetts prep arm taken early in the draft was Thomas White — a 6-foot-5 lefthander from Rowley — who went 35th overall to the Marlins in 2023 and is expected to reach the major leagues this summer. Bumila is four inches taller, throws harder, and may not last until 35.
The Red Sox pick 20th on July 11. The honest question isn't whether Bumila is worth that pick, it's whether he'll still be on the board when Boston is on the clock. If he is, you would be watching a kid from Raynham put on a Red Sox cap in front of his entire state. A New England kid, from a New England town, going to the New England team, with stuff that would make Fenway Park shake.
The MIAA playoffs are coming. Bumila said he wants a baseball state championship even more than the basketball one. Go watch him if you can. Get to Attleboro. Stand in that parking lot. You'll want to say you were there.
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