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Cubs' Seiya Suzuki, manager Craig Counsell pledge to improve communication in Year 2

John Antonoff / For the Sun-Times

MESA, Ariz. – As Seiya Suzuki answered questions about primarily serving as the Cubs’ designated hitter, he wore his glove on his left hand, flexing and kneading the leather with his right.

The topic had surfaced at winter meetings a couple months earlier, when his agent Joel Wolfe referenced Suzuki’s preference for playing in the field. On Friday, cameras and microphones surrounded him at his spring training locker to capture his first public comments since.