Former general manager Al Campanis once described a 20-year-old Candy Maldonado as ‘‘another Roberto Clemente’’ and declared ‘‘the first of 3,000’’ after the uber-hyped Dodgers prospect collected his first major-league hit in 1981.
Similar lofty expectations were cast upon Kris Bryant and Javy Baez nearly a decade ago, when the Cubs started to generate publicity toward their wave of talent that also included players such as Junior Lake and Albert Almora Jr.
