Maybe we should blame St. Tim Corbin for running him out there the last how many starts with a bad wing...or maybe we just understand that sometimes there is nobody to blame for an injury.
This isn't the first time or the last that an injury is going to stop or at least delay a potentially amazing career. Assuming he gets healthy he will make plenty of money somewhere else.
The Red Sox drafted a kid at like 9 or 10 a couple years back, he was maybe the top pitcher prospect in the draft, hurt his shoulder soon after...he got lucky, the Sox didn't. It is just the other side of the coin. Maybe if Rocker had come out of HS so highly ranked he would have some of story like this.
"MLB Pipeline had Groome as its No. 1 prospect in the 2016 draft, suggesting the high school hurler had “everything to be a top-of-the-rotation left-handed starting pitcher.” He wound up slipping to the Red Sox at No. 12 overall, however, thanks in large to signability and makeup concerns.
There’s always risk associated with drafting high school pitchers, and Groome, who returned to Barnegat High School in New Jersey for his senior season after transferring to IMG Academy in Florida for his junior season, was a particularly precarious pick. Not only were there character questions surrounding Groome, who had been suspended for what was deemed an improper transfer and who had changed his commitment from Vanderbilt to Chipola College. There also were pre-draft reports linking Groome to the San Diego Padres, who owned the 24th and 25th picks.
Nevertheless, the Red Sox rolled the dice, for Groome’s upside at age 17 was too tantalizing to pass up. They reportedly awarded him a $3.65 million bonus, $457,000 above the value assigned to that slot in the draft.