The can’t-miss kid.
No pressure there. No lofty, next-to-impossible expectations. Just go be a superstar.
But that’s pretty much where the Dodgers are with phenom Corey Seager, who did little to discourage the hyperbole when he was called up last September and unexpectedly beat out veteran shortstop Jimmy Rollins.
Seager, all of 21, has been the Dodgers’ No. 1 prospect for the last two seasons. The Dodgers’ first-round pick in 2012, he was having a very good, if unspectacular, season at triple-A (.278, .332, .451) when called up.
And then he got off to an absolutely monster start that had everybody feeling really good about all those expectations.