Ah, autumn; that majestic time of year when we all put on hoodies and everything dies. As the earth prepares for its frigid slumber, human populace be damned, baseball sends its hottest prospects to the desert so that they might find a better chance for survival.
And what a crew has gathered this season!
There’s Rays pitcher Brent Honeywell, a NERF gun-toting screwballer! Michael Kopech, the Red Sox’ second-best right-handed pitching prospect, who lost two months of 2016 after breaking his hand fighting a teammate! And who could forget Tigers powerhouse Christin Stewart, who put aside a lucrative acting career in the Twilight franchise and has become a slugger with such power, his staggering BP sessions have been known to “elicit gasps from onlookers.