It’s not a normal offseason without hearing Kris Bryant’s name in a variety of trade rumors.
The Cubs’ third baseman has once again been in the middle of the Hot Stove talk this winter and was honest about how those rumors have affected him over the last few seasons and if he still had fun playing the game.
“That’s a great question. At times, no. It really got to me sometimes,” Bryant said on Redline Radio in January. “Just the stuff I was hearing. The first trade rumors that started to pop up [in 2018], that really got to me.