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Democrats will be poised “to highlight” those sorts of cases, Carrick said, imagining the script for a campaign ad that practically writes itself: “He was sentenced to X number of years. Trump let him out of jail, and look what he did.”

Attorneys for some of the imprisoned defendants said before the inauguration that they were watching Trump’s actions closely and would be poised to respond with legal motions seeking their clients’ immediate release.

This is as good an illustration as any of one of the most striking things about Barron Trump, which is just how little we know about him, given how famous he is and what role he could be poised to take on in Trumpworld as he comes of age.

This winter, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts might be poised to break it.

But with Soto — the only better outfielder of this year’s class — now signed, Hernández’s market could be poised to heat up, with other Soto finalists expected to refocus on Hernández in the coming days.