Only a handful of Chicago Cubs players will be able to fully enjoy the offseason without fear of losing their role on the team. If your name isn’t Anthony Rizzo, Javier Baez, Jon Lester, Craig Kimbrel, Kyle Hendricks or Yu Darvish, then you better buckle up.
Kris Bryant barely falls outside of that group in my mind. It would take an overwhelming haul for Chicago to move the former NL Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player and it’s hard to envision a contender that would get notably better in the immediate future, while also being able to give the Cubs a package Theo Epstein would deem worthy in return.