HOUSTON -- Xander Bogaerts signed with the Boston Red Sox in 2009, three years before Carlos Correa was taken by the Houston Astros with the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft. They never played against each other in the minors, their paths barely crossing until Correa's first trip to Fenway Park last July, one month after his major league debut.
But for a few hours on July 14, 2013, they were actually teammates.
"Oh, man," Bogaerts said, recalling the 2013 Futures Game at Citi Field in New York, "I remember [Correa] and [Twins rookie Miguel] Sano putting on a show in BP.