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Welcome to the New Era: 19-Year-Old Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is Baseball's Most Exciting Prospect

Before the question is even all out, New Hampshire Fisher Cats manager John Schneider is laughing. On a mid-May afternoon in Hartford, the genial skipper of the Toronto Blue Jays’ Double A affiliate is in the process of being asked to weigh in on the season his 19-year-old third baseman, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., is having. His answer is somewhere between an impressed chuckle and a nervous giggle. This is the common response when even seasoned baseball men discuss a player who is so clearly superior to his peers that he makes the game look like MLB The Show with the difficulty turned all the way down, or like Mike Trout suiting up in a Little League game.