Baseball’s top prospect, an 18-year-old shortstop phenom, will make his way to the Tampa Bay area this week.
No, he will not be joining the Rays. not yet, anyway. Rather, Wander Franco and his Charlotte Stone Crabs are slated for seven games near his potential future home in St. Petersburg.
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Franco, the top prospect in all of baseball per MLB Pipeline and FanGraphs, is off to a torrid start with Charlotte, the Rays advanced class-A affiliate. He started his year in Bowling Green, Ky.