The best player on baseball's best team is built to be underestimated.
Xander Bogaerts remembers the first time he saw Mookie Betts. It was late summer 2011 in South Carolina, and Bogaerts was an 18-year-old shortstop for the Low-A Greenville Drive -- a confident kid who'd signed as an amateur free agent in 2009 and was two years from a World Series title with the Boston Red Sox. Also on the field in Greenville that day was Betts, a recent high school graduate who'd been taken in the fifth round of the MLB draft that summer and was in town for a workout with other Red Sox prospects.