A skinny kid who had the knack for slinging a baseball, Carl Edwards Jr. has often made scouts and fans drool. While his slender frame was once a question mark as a starter, his stuff and execution (at times) as a reliever has mostly silenced doubts about his viability as a Major League reliever. What has come into question, however, is just how close he will ever get to his ceiling.
No longer the 23-year-old who debuted for the Cubs four years ago, everyone wants to know if this will be the year that the “Stringbean Slinger” finally puts everything together for an entire season and asserts himself as the setup man or closer his stuff says he can be.