The Red Sox aren't messing around with this draft class. After going after a UNC shortstop with the 20th overall pick, Boston came back for another Tar Heel with its supplemental second-rounder, and this time it's an outfielder who spent his junior spring making Division I pitchers look silly.
Supplemental 2nd-rder Owen Hull signs w/@RedSox for $1.2 million (slot 67 value = $1,317,300). @DiamondHeels OF, one of best combos of physicality & athleticism in college ranks, dynamic CF with plenty of speed & improved his swing & power during the spring. @MLBDraft
Jim Callis laid out the numbers: Owen Hull signed for $1.2 million, a slight discount off the roughly $1.32 million slot value for pick No. 67. Callis' framing says it all — one of the best combinations of physicality and athleticism in the college ranks, a dynamic center fielder with plenty of speed who leveled up his swing and power as the season went on. That's not a throwaway scouting blurb. It's the kind of tools-and-production combo teams dream about landing outside the first round.
The production backs up the hype. Hull, an Alexandria, Virginia native who transferred to North Carolina after two years at George Mason, hit .393 with a .500 on-base percentage as a junior, finishing top of the class nationally in hits and RBIs while stealing 18 bases. He was a hit machine through UNC's run to the College World Series finals, reaching base in all 6 CWS games and landing on the All-Tournament Team along the way.
There's a fun wrinkle here too. Hull's new pro roommate situation echoes his old one — he and Jake Schaffner, the shortstop Boston took 20th overall, were roommates and best friends at UNC. Now they're both heading into the same organization together, which is the kind of storyline player-dev staffs love to lean into for early minor league chemistry.
For a Red Sox farm system that's been retooling on the fly, adding a 6-foot-4, 215-pound center fielder with plus speed and emerging power is exactly the kind of high-ceiling bet that pays off on late boards. He's not a finished product — the power is still projecting rather than proven at the pro level — but the athletic profile gives Boston's development staff plenty to work with.
None of this guarantees Hull sticks in center field long-term or that the power translates against pro arms, but locking him up at a shade under slot value lets Boston reallocate bonus pool money elsewhere in a draft class that already looks stacked. Keep an eye on where he opens next season — how quickly he moves will tell you a lot about how real that Callis scouting report actually is.