BOSTON -- The Red Sox hope the 2019 MLB Draft will be remembered as one in which they set up their next wave of success with two dynamic infield prospects (Cameron Cannon and Matthew Lugo), an intriguing Kansas Jayhawks battery (Ryan Zeferjahn and Jaxx Groshans) and a high upside righty (Noah Song) from the Naval Academy.

And Boston also hopes it will be remembered as the season the club found a quality right-handed pitcher in its own backyard in North Andover righty Sebastian Keane.

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“We’re very pleased,” said Red Sox vice president of amateur scouting Mike Rikard. “We believe, as always, the goal is to accumulate talent through the Draft and we feel we were able to accomplish that. We got a nice group of bats that we’re excited about and as far as some of the pitchers we were able to take. We believe all of them have good upside. They kind of do a lot of the things we value when assessing pitchers and we’re just very excited about getting them out there and getting them going.”

The Sox opened Day 3 of the MLB Draft on Wednesday by selecting Keane, a high school senior who lives roughly 30 miles from Fenway Park, with their 11th-round pick.

It presumably won’t take long for Keane to switch fan allegiances. Believe it or not, the Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year has spent most of his life as a diehard Yankees fan. This is because his father grew up in New York.

Keane has a scholarship at Northeastern University in Boston, but the Red Sox hope he will look to start his professional career instead. Scouts have been watching Keane for two years, and the Sox haven’t had to go far to get frequent looks at him.

“He’s a guy that has kind of been around for a while. We saw him this summer in the Fenway Classic and Ray Fagnant, our local scout here has just seen him for a long, long time,” said Rikard. “We’re excited to see what we’re going to be able to do in his case. He’s projectable. He’s a pretty athletic kid and he’s got a quick arm. On the high school guys, he kind of checks some of the boxes that we look for in young pitchers. He throws strikes.

“He’s got an athletic delivery and his stuff is good. He’s got three pitches and as in most of the kids that we try to select, we believe in his character and work ethic and a lot of those things as well.”

In all, Boston selected 27 college players and 13 position players. Considering that much of the club’s top Minor League talent is in the lower levels, it isn’t surprising the Sox prioritized college players these past three days. They took 22 pitchers and 18 position players.

Due to exceeding the luxury tax by over $40 million en route to a World Series championship last season, the Red Sox were dropped 10 spots at the start of this year’s MLB Draft and made their first selection at No. 43. They are excited about the player they got at that spot, thinking that Cannon’s line-drive stroke that leads to a lot of doubles will one day make him a strong fit at Fenway Park.

Boston closed the first night of the Draft by taking another shortstop in Matthew Lugo from the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy in Puerto Rico.

“We’ve gotten to know both players really well through the process,” Rikard said. “We’ve been very impressed and comfortable with their makeup and character.”

As for the Jayhawks battery of righty starter Zeferjahn and catcher Groshans, it will be interesting to watch them progress through the farm system together.

“That certainly wasn’t by design but it’s always nice when you can get guys that are very familiar with each other and have been with each other for quite a while,” said Rikard. “In Zeferjahn’s case, he’s a guy that, for a college pitcher, he still has some projection in his stuff. In Groshans' case, he’s an offensive type catcher. We do like his defense as well and are hopeful that he can grow from a development standpoint defensively as well.”

No pick over these three days was more intriguing than fourth-rounder Song, who has a fastball that sits at 96 mph, but he also a two-year service requirement to fulfill.

“We believe he’s a very, very talented pitcher and had a really good process with him as far as how we scouted him, and our staff as a whole really believe that he’s one of the more talented pitchers that we were able to consider,” Rikard said. “We were very aware of Noah’s service obligations to the Navy and quite candidly, beyond the baseball talent, it’s one of the things that drew us to him just as far as his character and a lot of the things that our scout Reed Gragnani was able to get to know about him. He’s a really complete player and a person, and we feel very fortunate to have been able to select him.”

If you’re looking for a third-day pick who will be fun to follow, big slugger Joe Davis (19th round) out of the University of Houston could be your man. Davis has a thick mustache and a big bat, and he belted a school record 53 homers in four years for the Cougars.

Also keep an eye on shortstop Daniel Bakst from Stanford (28th round), who has a big bat, but he chose not to play college baseball this season.

“He was a real high-profile kid out of high school. We saw him a lot,” Rikard said. “He actually came to some of our workouts leading up to the draft that year and to be honest, I’m not exactly sure what happened at Stanford but once we got to that point in the Draft, our scout Josh Labendeira alerted us back to him and we thought he would be somebody worthy of consideration. We’ll get to know a little bit more this next month and figure out what his intentions are. We know he’s very talented from seeing him in high school. We’re just going to kind of check in and see where he’s at as far as desire to consider pro baseball at this point.”