As the first snows of late fall hit the streets of Chicago there is still baseball out in the Arizona desert where it’s been mid-80s and sunny since I arrived on Thursday. Last night in addition to the perfect weather, visitors at the Cubs Spring Training home, Sloan Park, were also treated to quite the fireworks display courtesy of the Arizona Fall League Home Run Derby.

There were no Cubs prospects in this year’s contest, but there were bombs. There were dingers. There are players we’ll all want to keep an eye on, both in the division and out of the division, but none of them held a candle to Pirates prospect Tony Blanco Jr..

Blanco put on an absolute clinic of raw power, and it’s hard to overstate the reactions from the crowd as he put up eye-popping numbers in the home run contest, s

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