GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Tony Blanco Jr. certainly looks the part. As the 6-foot-7, 243-pounder strides into the box, wearing the same No. 99 made famous by this generation’s preeminent slugger, it seems he’s capable of the old axiom of “hitting the cover off the ball” every time he coils up and gets ready to unleash a hack.

Then he makes contact and there’s often a sound that very few hitters -- at any level -- can produce.

On consecutive days during the second week of the Arizona Fall League season, Blanco crushed a 464-foot homer and ripped a 120.4 mph double for the Salt River Rafters, the longest and hardest-hit balls on the circuit this year.

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