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If the Cubs bring in a veteran third baseman this spring, it looks like it won’t be Alex Bregman.
Bregman agreed to a three-year deal with the Red Sox for $120 million, according to multiple reports Wednesday night.
The Cubs had been interested in signing the two-time All-Star, but optimism that he would end up in Chicago was waning by Wednesday.
Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer declined to comment directly about Bregman, or any free agent, in a news conference Sunday as the team opened spring training.