Chicago White Sox’s Gordon Beckham is that guy.
You know the type. The first-rounder who takes the league by storm his rookie season, has the intangibles of a budding superstar, and just never puts it all together.
The thing about Beckham though is that he’s not a washed up 34-year-old out of the bigs. He’s only 28 years old, entering what are traditionally a ballplayer’s prime years. We’ve all become accustomed to the “Why [insert year here] Will Be the Year Gordon Beckham Breaks Out” articles and those repetitive offseason editorials became somewhat of a tradition on the South Side.