Full Name: Patrick Light
Born: 03/29/1991
Birthplace: Colts Neck, NJ
College: Monmouth
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 195
Bats: R
Throws: R
Red Sox 1st round pick of 2012 Draft
Twitter: @Pat_Light
Ranked No. 18 among Red Sox prospects by MLB.com entering the 2013 season. ... Selected by the Boston Red Sox in the first round (37th overall) of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft out of Monmouth University. ... Was the highest Draft pick in school history. ... Set single-season school records as a junior in 2012 with a Northeast Conference-leading 102 strikeouts and 101 1/3 innings pitched. ... Was named 2012 New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association Pitcher of the Year as well as a third team Louisville Slugger All-American and first team All-Conference. ... Was selected to the 2011 Northeast Conference All-Tournament Team and 2010 NJCBA All-Rookie squad.
- ESPN ArticleLight was ranked No. 53 in Baseball America's preseason list of the Top 100 2012 draft prospects. And why the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association tapped him as Pitcher of the Year. And why, in early May, he was named to the Golden Spikes Award watch list; the award is college baseball's Heisman, given to the best player in the game. Recent winners include Washington's Stephen Strasburg and San Francisco's Tim Lincecum.
Like those two, Light can bring the heat. His four-seam fastball has been clocked as high as 99 mph, and he supplements it with a solid slider that breaks down and away to righties, and a split-change that hovers in the upper 70s. Four of Light's 14 starts this season resulted in complete games, and he's shown he can manage that velocity for the long haul. "He knows to pace himself," says one scout. "He's very smart. He'll hang around the low 90s, and every now and then come back with a 96 or 97 just to say, 'Hey guys, I have it; I'm just not going to burn myself out.'"
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