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Christopher Morel is going to be the Cubs’ third baseman for a while, despite the errors

Christopher Morel has played in 12 Spring Training games this year.

He’s made four errors.

Extrapolate that to a full season and you’d be looking at (checks notes) about 50 errors, which would be... not very good. Overall, in the 12 games he’s had 24 chances and recorded eight putouts and 12 assists to go along with those errors, which is a fielding percentage of .833. That’s... not very good.

Of course, extrapolating on such a small sample size is a fool’s errand. Morel has alternately looked like he could handle the position and like he shouldn’t be anywhere near a baseball lineup except as a designated hitter.