Middleboro High standout pitcher invited to Red Sox training camp
Sean Newcomb, a Middleboro High School graduate, has been invited to Red Sox training camp. Photo source: Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images
Sean Newcomb fires away during the 2012 Wareham Gatemen championship season. Photo by Andrew Griffin 
Newcomb, shown here with the Gatemen, aims to make the Red Sox team this season. Photo by Andrew Griffin
Sean Newcomb, a Middleboro High School graduate, has been invited to Red Sox training camp. Photo source: Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images
Sean Newcomb fires away during the 2012 Wareham Gatemen championship season. Photo by Andrew Griffin
Newcomb, shown here with the Gatemen, aims to make the Red Sox team this season. Photo by Andrew Griffin
MIDDLEBORO — Sean Newcomb, a 2011 Middleboro High School graduate and former first round major league baseball draft pick, has been invited to the Boston Red Sox spring training camp that begins in February.
Newcomb, 31, had a .46 earned run average as a Middleboro High School senior. He notched 110 strikeouts in 58 innings pitched.
Newcomb was inducted into the Middleboro High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.
The left-hander was signed to a minor league deal with the Red Sox and invited to the major league camp, the team announced Jan. 17.
The Los Angeles Angels selected Newcomb as the 15th pick of the first round draft in 2014.
Newcomb has a 4.51 earned run average with 438 strikeouts in 175 major league games, including 60 starts. He has played with the Atlanta Braves in 2017 to 2022, Chicago Cubs in 2022 and the Oakland Athletics in 2023 to 2024.
He was also a pitcher with the Wareham Gatemen in 2012, when the team won the championship, and in 2013.
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