The 2019 Baseball Winter Meetings began in San Diego on Monday and the Chicago Cubs got right to work, reportedly fielding multiple calls on primetime players, including third baseman Kris Bryant. Among the interested parties, according to Bruce Levine of 670 WSCR, were the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies.
Of course, Bryant’s unresolved grievance case hangs over all these discussions. The grievance itself stems from issue of Bryant being brought up from the minors in April 2015, two weeks after the season started.
Your favorite Cubs scribe wrote about it here and concluded it would be the number one reason that the former NL MVP would leave the organization.