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Hope landed in Kansas City on Monday night. At least what passes for hope in the lower class. The place where the Red Sox have not resided for a very long time.

“He’s going to be to the Royals what Patrick Mahomes is to the Chiefs,” crowed MLB.com’s Jim Callis, the longtime guru of baseball prospects about Bobby Witt Jr. “I got that comp from a scout. … It’s a special player. Special talent. Special makeup. And he can do for the Royals what Patrick Mahomes has done for the Chiefs.”

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