MESA -- Chicago Cubs players are making their pitch to free agent third baseman Alex Bregman but claim they aren't overtly recruiting him.
"I don't think it's recruiting," Cubs pitcher and Bregman's former Houston Astros teammate Ryan Pressly said Tuesday from spring training. "It's not, 'Hey, come here, come here.' Would I like to play with him? One thousand percent. I would love to play with him."
Bregman, 30, remains unsigned as camps open throughout Florida and Arizona. Position players are due in later this week for the Cubs, who began spring training a couple days earlier than other teams because of a March trip to Japan.