It’s funny how time flies isn’t it? It has been just over nine years since the Boston Red Sox signed a16-year-old Aruban shortstop named Xander Bogaerts. It was a rather ho-hum moment at the time – I can’t even find any contemporary write-ups on Bogaerts’ acquisition – but the young islander would soon make waves in the baseball world.
Bogaerts made his professional debut in the Dominican Summer League in 2010 and performed well, but it was his stellar season in the South Atlantic League in 2011 that put him on the radar of prospect junkies across the sport.