You’re Carlos Correa, and this all started on Draft Day 2012.
You weren’t the consensus No. 1 pick coming out of the Puerto Rican Baseball Academy. There was no consensus No. 1 that year, no Bryce Harper, no Steven Strasburg.
The Astros, it was thought, would select either Byron Buxton, a high-school outfielder from Georgia, or Mark Appel, a right-handed pitcher from Stanford.
When they chose you, Carlos Correa, made you the first No. 1 overall pick from Puerto Rico at age 17, it was a bit of a shock.
Brilliant, as it turned out – the Astros signed you for $4.