Well, it’s happened. The biggest prospect the Cubs have had since Mark Prior (or Corey Patterson, if we’re talking positional prospects). Kris Bryant came up to ridiculously awesome fanfare.
It didn’t last. After his third consecutive strikeout in his first game, you could already hear some of the Cubs fan yelling “you suck!” No wonder Theo likes to start out prospects on the road. It’s very likely that the 15 pitches he saw off James Shields were in the Top 25 pitches Bryant has ever seen as a professional baseball player, and they were not promising. It got to the point where in his first game, the Padres walked Anthony Rizzo to load the bases to get to Bryant.