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I regret to inform you that Hoerner is probably going to be a slightly better version of Darwin Barney when he grows up.
I remember watching that draft (the Royals Kowar/Singer draft and our Gorman draft) and by the time the draft was done I think the Cubs had failed to take a single player inside baseball america's top 150. I've never just looked at a draft and been so completely unable to understand it.
It was so bizarre that it made me question if I was the idiot.
And yet to this point, most of the guys I thought would be good look pretty good and Nico Heorner has never looked like anything more than the 5th best player on a playoff team.
He's a complementary player through and through and near as I can tell he's easily the crown jewel of the Cubs farm system.
That's...not great. I mean from a defensive versatility standpoint he's more useful than a guy like Max Schrock (who can't play anywhere but 2b) but guys like that are pretty fungible guys.
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