MESA, Ariz. – Cubs manager David Ross was dress shopping when he got the news that baseball was coming back.
He and his teenage daughter Landri had a function coming up, so he took her to the mall Thursday. That’s when the Major League Baseball Players Association voted to accept the league’s latest proposal and the owners ratified the new collective bargaining agreement.
Landri went into the dressing room to try on some options, and Ross started shooting off individual texts to each of his players.
“Willson Contreras texted me back like two seconds later,” Ross recounted Friday.