For a second, Chris Bryant thought he was traded to the Mets.
The Cubs’ third baseman told reporters Thursday that he had received a text from a Connecticut number he was unfamiliar with. The text contained a simple message: “Welcome to the Mets.”
The text briefly removed Bryant, who faced all the rumors of trade rumors. It did not take long for him to resolve the situation. Bryant called his agent, Scott Borus and Borus, the Cubs GM Jed Hoyer. Hoyer said the report was not true.
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But the early text clearly influenced Bryant.
“I think this kind of stuff feels good,” Bryant said. “When there’s something that’s completely wrong. Because at the end of the day, we’re all human, and sometimes when you get a text that says something like that, it’s like, okay, with me Might be a bit fishy. “
For Bryant’s future, it is still to be determined. He becomes a free agent after this season, and this could be his final season with the Cubs, with no contract extension.
He, along with playing with a big market team, targets him for misplaced trade rumors. But Hoyer told reporters that he wanted to help the team of Bryant and others who might be in a similar situation, to just talk with him to get some drowning out of the noise.
“Players understand this is a business,” Hoyer said. “They think they can be traded. They are not naive to those things. I think it causes a lot of uncertainty when you read your name in the paper and everyone starts scaring you, and your wife or your friends start to wonder. And if I can give some relief from it, I think it’s a good thing. So, I would encourage Krrish, but I would encourage any of our boys, just to talk to me and have an open conversation if there is concern about them. “
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