I've had just about enough, thank you.

All of this fawning and adulation over Cody Bellinger's potential, to the point that anything short of out-and-out worship on social media is in some way scandalous ... it's embarrassing.

He has accomplished some big things in his last 10 games, not only becoming just the second Dodger to hit 10 homers during such a span but also setting the major-league record for fastest to 22 at the start of a career.

It's an awe-inspiring performance deserving of accolades aplenty, but it doesn't mean he's without fault.

I say this acknowledging he's a 21-year-old rookie and that the vast majority of his career (presumably) lies ahead of him. I can't predict the ways he'll change and develop during that time, and for the purposes of the 2017 season, it's irrelevant.

What I can tell you is what I've observed so far, and what I've observed is this:

  1. He has a ton of power potential. Well, duh. It's the reason most every prospect publication ranked him in the top 25 coming into the year, and anyone who wants to argue the point now has no leg to stand on.
  2. He has a ton of swing-and-miss potential. This is the one so many are conveniently choosing to ignore. Yes, strikeouts are ubiquitous in today's game, but we're talking a different stratosphere of whiffability. His 29.7 percent rate would rank among the top 10 if he had the at-bats to qualify and would have ranked among the top four last year. The batting averages of the top three: .239, .222 and .221.
  3. He's batting .270. Yes, even with this historic hot streak, even with him having more BABIP-independent hits -- the kind that boost batting average for free (i.e., home runs) -- than any hitter to begin his career, his batting average is ordinary. So what happens when he slows down? (And don't tell me his .282 BABIP is a sign of bad luck -- his extreme fly ball tendency is going to keep it on the wrong side of .300, most likely.)
  4. We've already seen him cool off. It began in late May and lasted about three weeks. He hit .159 (10 for 63) during that stretch to drop his season mark to .242 and ranked only 49th among first basemen in points leagues and 46th in Rotisserie during that stretch.
  5. He's really, really good. I don't want to lose sight of this idea amid all the sobering realities. I'm not suggesting you should drop him or can't rely on him or anything to that effect. The point here isn't to denigrate him, and nothing bad happens to you if you hold on to him. But ...
  6. He's not as good as you think he is today. The peak of a historic hot streak is the worst time to gauge a player's ability, and as I think I've already demonstrated, the math simply doesn't add up to Bellinger being an elite Fantasy performer. If he continues to homer at a rate of one every 2.4 games, that's a 70-homer pace that I think we'd all agree is unsustainable. But if he doesn't sustain it, with as much as he strikes out and as much as he puts the ball in the air, he'll struggle to hit even .250. It's a similar profile to Chris Davis, who we've seen perform at a near-MVP level when he's gotten a favorable BABIP, such as in 2012, 2013 and 2015, but who we've also seen struggle for extended stretches. Bellinger's fortunes could be just as unpredictable from month to month, and given that home runs aren't as scarce as they were in Davis' heyday ... 
  7. Many of us don't actually need Cody Bellinger. Oh, we're starting him and will continue to start him for as long as we have him. It's the only reasonable course of action for a Bellinger owner. But with so many unexpected breakthroughs at the positions where he's eligible -- from Yonder Alonso, Justin Smoak and Mark Reynolds at first base to Aaron Judge, Corey Dickerson and Marcell Ozuna in the outfield -- you've probably achieved some level of excess at those spots, if you've been active on the waiver wire. (And why would you be the one with Bellinger if you haven't?) With that excess, you wouldn't terribly miss him if he were to spontaneously evaporate, at least not in leagues that use a traditional Head-to-Head lineup with three outfielders and no extra corner infielder.

So then, I ask you: What's your next move?

I know mine. In the league where I own Bellinger with a perfectly competent Eric Hosmer on my bench, at a time when home run leaders like Logan Morrison and Scott Schebler are still owned in less than 80 percent CBS Sports leagues (even lower elsewhere) and a new Matt Adams or Trey Mancini seems to emerge on the waiver wire every week, I'm going to use this outpouring of emotion for Bellinger as an opportunity to swap a replaceable asset for an irreplaceable one.

And what's more irreplaceable in this environment than a high-end starting pitcher?

I'm talking an ace. Corey Kluber. Jacob deGrom. Chris Archer. Maybe even Johnny Cueto if I'm feeling really confident in the next bat up. Find the owner in most need of a first baseman or outfielder, pick out his best pitcher and make an offer. Throw in a lesser arm if you have to. And then when Bellinger inevitably cools off, as we've already seen him do once, you can rest easy knowing you cashed in at the height of hysteria.

Most likely, Bellinger will still be worth starting over someone like Morrison even when he cools off, but will the gap be as wide as between Stephen Strasburg and some flavor-of-the-week Joe Ross type? I can't imagine it will.