Coincidence? I think not

Before its college football preview, this week's Sports Illustrated had a story about "Glimmer Twins" Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano, whose presence in the Minnesota Twins system was likened to having Mike Trout and Bryce Harper in the same organization.

If all goes according to plan, Buxton and Sano will lead the Twins for years to come, although an interesting sidebar to the story listed the other five times since 1990 that one organization had two position players in the top five of Baseball America's prospect rankings: Alex Gonzalez and Carlos Delgado (1994 Blue Jays), Ruben Rivera and Derek Jeter (1995 Yankees, and Rivera was ranked higher), Paul Konerko and Adrian Beltre (1998 Dodgers), B.J. Upton and Delmon Young (2004 Devil Rays) and Justin Upton and Stephen Drew (2006 Diamondbacks).

Out of that group, Rivera is the only outright bust, but Jeter is the only surefire Hall-of-Famer in the bunch, and the Konerko-Beltre pairing is the only one where you could say both became stars ... but not both for the Dodgers at the same time.

Something more subtly interesting, however, at least to me, was writer Albert Chen's description of Sano:

"Sano is a 6'4", 200-pound man-child, the kind of physical specimen that would have SEC coaches breaking NCAA recruiting rules."

Not "college football coaches," "Big 10 coaches," "Pac-12 coaches," "Big 12 coaches" or coaches from any other conference.

You can't tell me that wasn't intentional, that anyone reading that sentence doesn't understand exactly what Chen was getting at. But had they forgotten by the time they got to the college football preview itself, which had seven SEC teams in the top 25?