When agent Scott Boras stood on a makeshift dais at the MLB general manager meetings in November in Las Vegas and told reporters that Cody Bellinger just needed to restore strength in his surgically repaired right shoulder to regain his National League MVP form from 2019, it came across as a sales pitch.
As Bellinger stroked two opposite-field home runs in the Cubs’ 6-4 victory Saturday against the Royals — a pair of rockets soaring to join with the periodic buzzing of Wrigley Field from the Air & Water Show — it served as a reminder that it’s enticing to dream about player ceilings because they sometimes are realized.
