Found July 16, 2009 on Bleacher Report:
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Every avid baseball fan has been a little too excited about a baseball prospect at some point in time. We embrace their solid performance at the lower levels or some flashes in spring training because it gives us hope for the future. Eventually we are reminded that most young players never even make it to the big leagues, and even fewer become fixtures in a major league lineup. The Sox have had some pretty major flame-outs since I started following the team. For some strange reason, I felt like bringing back some painful memories from the past before the second half begins. For the purposes of these rankings, I've left out players that are still relatively young and still have some slim chance of being a regular in the majors. I don't really want to have people sending this link back to me if I prematurely declare Brian Anderson or Josh Fields to be done. I also decided to leave Kip Wells off the list. Despite his lofty prospect rankings and relatively weak career produ...
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