There’s a high school kid on the cover of Sports Illustrated, an unprecedented superstar causing a commotion in Japan, a failed catching prospect trying to reinvent himself in the minors, and a left-handed ace hitting bombs in San Francisco.
It’s enough to make you wonder: Is Major League Baseball ready for a true two-way player who can throw fastballs for strikes one night and hit line-drive doubles the next?
Then you see the Red Sox pitchers strike out in literally every one of their at-bats in Milwaukee and begin to think again.
A pitcher/hitter hybrid isn’t exactly the holy grail of baseball scouting.