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6-foot-9 Brody Bumila continues to dominate Massachusetts high school baseball.
Brody Bumila is committed to pitch for Texas, but he could easily be taken in the first round of this year’s MLB Draft. Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Bishop Feehan standout pitcher Brody Bumila is the latest Mass. high school athlete to make national headlines with his talent.
Brockton native AJ Dybantsa is the consensus No. 1 overall pick in next month’s NBA Draft; Bumila may not go first in July’s MLB Draft, but he could certainly go in the first round.
Bumila, of Raynham, continued his unprecedented stretch of dominance on the mound during Feehan’s senior night Friday. The 6-foot-9-inch-tall left-hander broke the Attleboro school’s strikeout record by K’ing 20 batters with a seven-inning no-hitter, his first complete game of the season.
20-strikeout‼️ no-hitter and up to 100 mph from 6-foot-9 Brody Bumila.
2026 high school LHP was overpowering tonight for Bishop Feehan in Massachusetts. Heavy fastball attack and mixed in a quality changeup.
Baseball America projected first-round pick in the 2026 MLB Draft. pic.twitter.com/Y5NDvqS4xQ
— Ben Badler (@BenBadler) May 9, 2026
What could have possibly made 18-year-old Bumila’s electric performance even more special? Tossing the gem in front of Feehan’s previous strikeout record-holder, Mike Walsh, who K’d 19 batters for the Shamrocks in 1966.
Brody Bumila with the previous single game strikeout record holder, Mike Walsh class of ‘66 (19 Ks) pic.twitter.com/G1S76fjMCQ
— Bishop Feehan Athletics (@FeehanAthletics) May 9, 2026
Bumila allowed his first run all season, an unearned run in the first inning.
Bumila is committed to the University of Texas, but his pitching prowess could help him skip over the college level and go straight into the pros. He is the No. 22-ranked draft prospect and was mocked to go No. 21 overall to the San Diego Padres by MLB.com.
2026 LHP Brody Bumila (Bishop Feehan HS, MA) // @TexasBaseball commit
Another look at the #1 player in Massachusetts. The lefty sits at 6’9 and comes from a low 3/4 slot. Overpowering FB and mixes in the offspeed. Draft stock is rising quickly
FB: 94-97 T100⛽️
SL: 80-81
CH:… pic.twitter.com/J1GhrT7mfl
— Prep Baseball New England (@PBNewEngland) May 9, 2026
According to Bumila’s mother, Misti, her son has met with “many, many, many MLB teams” (via The Boston Globe’s Matt Porter). Bumila’s agent, Alex Ott, believes there is a “very real possibility” that his client will be drafted in the first round.
The southpaw throws a 101-mile-per-hour fastball and has a changeup and slider in his arsenal, too. Scouts have made Feehan a must-visit destination this season, and Bumila’s fastball is consistently referenced as “elite.”
“It’s not just power, it’s also elite extension,” Baseball America’s Carlos Collazo said on the “Draft Podcast”. “It’s pretty rare spin capacity for that pitch. Like, everything about it should allow him to have, or currently have, an elite, elite fastball.
“There are scouts who are kind of, no hesitation putting 80 grades on this fastball, and I feel like while an 80 should be rare air, it does not bother me at all that people are just not thinking and saying, ‘This is an 80.’ If this is not, I don’t really know what would be.”
Bumila suffered a sprained UCL in July 2024, but he appears to have recovered nicely from the internal brace procedure he underwent. He’s collected 69 strikeouts across 27 innings in 2026, helping make him a household name in the baseball world.
“Bumila’s already-premium stuff could take another leap forward when he gets pro instruction; he likes digging into metrics and pitch design, so access to professional technology should help,” MLB.com wrote in his scouting report. “He throws strikes, though he’s definitely control over command at this point. Because of his overall athleticism, the Texas recruit does a nice job of keeping all of his large moving parts fairly coordinated in repeating his delivery.”
While baseball is his calling, Bumila is a monster on the basketball court, too. He led Feehan boys’ basketball to its first state championship title this year, averaging a staggering 40 points and 20 rebounds in the playoffs.
Meet Brody Bumila: a Texas baseball commit that dropped 36 points and 21 rebounds to lead his school to its first D-I basketball state championship 😧🔥
His dominant performance led 14-seed Bishop Feehan HS (MA) to the 66-63 win over top-seed Central Catholic (MA) in the 2026… pic.twitter.com/arxqcxzimM
— SportsCenter NEXT (@SCNext) March 17, 2026
Kaley Brown
Kaley Brown is a sports producer for Boston.com, where she covers the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox.
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