While pitching at high school, Light posted a 20–0 record with a 1.52 earned run average for the Christian Brothers Academy in New Jersey, en route to set the best season pitching record in Shore Conference history.\n', '

The Minnesota Twins selected Light in the 28th round of the 2009 draft, but he went on to college instead. Attending Monmouth University, he went 14–14 with a 3.84 ERA and 196 strikeouts in 39 appearances from 2010–2012, ranking No. 53 on Baseball America\'s preseason Top 100 list of 2012 draft prospects. In the summer of 2010, Light was an NECBL All-Star, pitching for the Newport Gulls.\n', '

The Boston Red Sox selected Light in the first round (37th overall) of the 2012 MLB draft. Light made his professional debut in 2012 with the Short-Season A Lowell Spinners, where he posted a 0–2 record with a 2.37 ERA in 12 starts, allowing eight runs (seven earned) on 27 hits and five walks, while striking out 30 in 30⅓ innings of work. He then joined the Low A Greenville Drive in 2013, but suffered a partial tear in his right hamstring that was initially misdiagnosed before all-but-ending his season in early June. He returned in late August for a rehab assignment with the GCL Red Sox, where he pitched six innings of shutout ball in three appearances. Being limited to 28⅓ innings at Greenville, he went 1–4 with 28 strikeouts and an ERA of 8.06.\n', '

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