Portsmouth's Ryan Westmoreland Recovers from Another Brain Surgery

Portsmouth native and Boston Red Sox prospect Ryan Westmoreland underwent another brain surgery this past Friday, reports ESPN. 

According to ESPN, the surgery was a success and Westmoreland is now recovering. 

Selected by the Boston Red Sox in the sixth round of the 2008 first-year player draft out of Portsmouth High School, Westmoreland missed his second straight season in 2011 due to brain surgery. 

Westmoreland, a 2008 graduate of , was diagnosed with a cavernous malformation in his brain in March 2010 and missed the entire 2010 season.

In 2009, he was the Red Sox's No. 7 prospect, the No. 4 position player and the best athlete in the Red Sox farm system, according to Baseball America. In 2007, he was named "Rhode Island High School Baseball Player of the Year" and the state's "Schoolboy Athlete of the Year."