The Chicago Cubs’ Best Player Can Do It All

At its highest levels, baseball is a game of repetition. What separates a promising prospect from an everyday major-leaguer, and an everyday major-leaguer from an All Star, is often not so much the sheer grade of talent as the ability to access that particular talent, on demand, inning after inning and game after game. Many players can hit the ball as far as Mike Trout, on their best day, but . Bull pens are full of arms capable of throwing 97-mile-an-hour fastballs, but can dependably deliver such a pitch across the strike zone’s outer edge. Baseball’s drive for consistency breeds specialization; it’s impossible to picture the third-base maestro Nolan Arenado or