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As
ESPN.com's
Scott Lauber points out, it's been
thirty months since
Rusney Castillo played his first minor league game. And,
the soon-to-be 30-year old Cuban is no closer to Fenway now than he was in 2014. So, it begs the question:
'Did the Red Sox blow $72.5 million on this dude?' There's pretty much no chance that Castillo breaks camp with the big club—so he faces
another year in AAA (or lower) trying to prove himself. It could be that he is a
really late bloomer—more so than his countrymen
Jose Abreu,
Yasiel Puig and
Yoenis Cespedes. Or, he may just never match the extreme hype that accompanied his signing. There is
some reason for hope—at all minor league levels over the last eight years, he's hit .296. And, in his brief time with the major league club (99 games) he is a .262 hitter. Time—which he is rapidly running out of—will tell.
