Trey Mancini was introduced to Chicago media Monday afternoon through a Zoom news conference and it was pretty much the standard new player presser, except for this:
Trey Mancini will not be playing in the World Baseball Classic for Team Italy.
He believes it will benefit him to be with the Cubs through all of spring training to get to know his new team/organization "especially since I'm going to be a more veteran presence in the clubhouse."— Meghan Montemurro (@M_Montemurro) January 23, 2023This makes sense, the new guy on the team wanting to get to know everyone, especially since:
Trey Mancini hasn't played with anyone on the Cubs' roster in his career, though he did share a dugout with Michael Rucker for part of spring 2020 after Rucker was selected by Baltimore in the Rule 5 Draft (he was returned to the Cubs that same spring).