The Chicago Cubs have started the season 5-3. Would the addition of a potential superstar slugger perhaps have turned one of those losses to a win? Cubs fans certainly have a right to wonder.
Kris Bryant is set to join the Cubs in time for Friday’s afternoon game with the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field after three weeks in the minors. That brief stint was controversial.
Under baseball’s complicated collective bargaining rules, if Bryant spent 12 days in the minors this spring, his eligibility for free agency would be be delayed by one year, until 2021, potentially saving the Cubs millions.