For one moment, the future was the present along Florida’s Gulf coast. Roughly 90 minutes before first pitch of Thursday’s Spring Breakout opener between the Red Sox and Rays at Port Charlotte Sports Park,

But the Boston Red Sox's top prospects sure did their best to prove that notion wrong. On Thursday night, the Red Sox's top prospects squared off against the Tampa Bay Rays' top prospects in "Spring Breakout,

Major League Baseball created the Spring Breakout series last year as a way to showcase some of the sport’s top prospects in a competitive setting. As the Rays get set to face the Red Sox Thursday night in Port Charlotte for the opening game of this year’s series,