"We're not far," Bryan Reynolds was telling me late Monday night. "We're not far at all."
He smiled, too. I swear.
He knows. They all do. And it's been that way for some time now.
The rest of us, we're only starting to see it, and maybe never more than with Oneil Cruz's obscenely overdue return to PNC Park in this 12-1 burial of the Cubs that brought a bases-clearing double that lasered its way to the Notch, an RBI single that was almost as authoritative, an effortless steal, an eyepopping throw across the diamond, an extraordinary 12-stride tag-and-sprint on a sacrifice fly, and an array of accompanying Mythbusters-level metrics:
If that's too much data for anyone, measure it this way:
Oh, for real.