CHULA VISTA-Before the Boston Red Sox selected him with the fourth overall pick of the Major League Baseball, not one, not two, but three teams gave up East Lake University graduate Marcelo Mayer . However, the 18-year-old did not feel that he had a chip on his shoulder.

“I’m going out to play the same game I always do,” Meyer said.

Surrounded by relatives in Chula Vista, some of whom travel as far away as Mexico, it is difficult for Meyer and his family not to be emotional.

“I really don’t know, until the last 45 seconds, the previous pick,” Meyer admitted. “I tried to control myself and try not to cry, but the tears shed.”

“I believe that after the first draft pick, we received a call from his adviser and he said they reached an agreement with Boston,” Meyer’s father Enrique said. “I talked to Marcelo and Marcelo said he was very satisfied with it, so we had to wait for the second and third picks to pass. It was like the longest ten minutes in our life, just waiting there.”

“I am very proud of him because he has always been a very good person and he has always been very dedicated, so I think he deserves it,” said Myriam, Meyer’s mother.

Mayer told us that he chose not to go to Colorado because he prefers to experience this important moment with his friends and family in Chula Vista-a moment he will not forget.

“It means everything to us, and it’s incredible for my family to make such a huge sacrifice for me in this situation and share with them,” Meyer said.

Meyer’s father admitted that although he used to be a Yankees fan, he is now full of enthusiasm for the Red Sox. Mayer agreed, saying that they are all Boston fans now.