The obscure MLB record Trea Turner was born to break

Whether or not he wants to admit it, Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner might be destined to become baseball's all-time cycle king.

"I think it's all luck," he said. And yet Turner, a 23-year-old speedster who possesses the kind of rare skill set that practically screams "cycle," already has one to his credit, despite not even having 100 big league starts under his belt. Not for nothing, the very next day after his first cycle, which he notched last week in Colorado, Turner went out and came within a triple of doing it again. Of course, the road to cycle celebrity is paved with missing three-baggers.

"The triple's always the hard one," said Nationals coach Chris Speier, who has two…