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