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Tigers shortstop Javy Baez centered himself under a pop fly Tuesday, familiar flags flapping above. He squeezed the ball in his teal glove, then jogged off the field — for the first time in his career — toward the visitors’ dugout at Wrigley Field.
‘‘Time passes,’’ Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said of his reflections before Baez’s first game back at Wrigley since being traded to the Mets in 2021. ‘‘We had a core group of players that led to a lot of winning.