Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
— Bruce Lee
Exactly how aware the Cubs were of Nico Hoerner‘s malleability is a detail that’ll probably end up being molded over the years by revisionist history. And that may not actually make the story of his scouting any less true, since latent talent is not unlike a sculpture trapped within a block of marble.