F/F SPOTLIGHT: Starlin Castro

Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro seems to be approaching a career crossroads. For five full years now, Castro has been seemingly adrift on a series of losing Cubs teams, at times the only player on the big-league roster who you could reasonably expect to still be with the team when they returned to contention. In the past year, though, the tide has started to build in Chicago: Anthony Rizzo has emerged as a star, and Kris Bryant has now arrived and headlines a stunning array of young talent.

Some of that talent (namely Addison Russell and Javier Báez) could soon challenge Castro's job, because while the Cubs roster has been undergoing this dramatic upgrade, Castro's own development has stalled. Cubs fans and Castro's fantasy owners are...

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