Baseball fans proverbially and perpetually peek around the corner, stone-searching on the diamond. Who’s the next cornerstone for your franchise? Is he in the organization? Even when your team is encrusted with cornerstones — Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado — antsy fans anticipate the future during the present.
It’s a time-honored tradition. St. Louisans can recall the thrill when they first heard about a certain guy. The initial optimism and then skepticism — Wait, he’s supposed to be how good? — and then the imagination and the managing of expectations. There was Todd Zeile and Rick Ankiel, Anthony Reyes and Alex Reyes, J.D. Drew and Colby Rasmus, Alan Benes and Shelby Miller, Albert Pujols and Oscar Taveras.
And now, there is Dylan Carlson, the current future cornerstone.
