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New York Times
26-04-2025
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- New York Times
Bryce Harper talks Kyle Tucker, Wrigley Field vibes and what could have been with the Cubs
CHICAGO — During a recent Thanksgiving break, Philadelphia Phillies superstar Bryce Harper bumped into Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer at a Nashville restaurant. Harper, who has a home in Tennessee, recognized the longtime Cubs executive while they both were out with their families. Inevitably, they began talking shop. Advertisement 'We were just messing around a little bit,' Harper recalled, 'a what-could-have-been kind of thing.' History, in a sense, could be repeating itself with Kyle Tucker, another left-handed hitter who checks all the boxes in terms of what the Cubs are looking for in a franchise player. It's only April, but the fan frenzy and media speculation surrounding Tucker's future are already beginning to approach the kind of fever pitch that once followed Harper. Imagine if the Cubs had signed Harper as a free agent when they had the chance. Perhaps the Joe Maddon era wouldn't have ended with the nine-game losing streak in September 2019 that sealed the manager's fate. Maybe Theo Epstein would've reconsidered his decision to walk away as team president after the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The presence of Harper, the National League's 2021 MVP, might have prevented a sell-off at that trade deadline. The opportunity was right there for the Cubs in 2018, following losses in Game 163 and the wild-card round, a finish so disappointing that it led Epstein to declare: 'Our offense broke.' 'Going into that offseason, they were the No. 1 team on my list,' Harper told The Athletic before the start of this weekend's Cubs-Phillies series at Wrigley Field. 'Without a doubt.' The Cubs can't go back and undo Harper's 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies. Harper never really looked back, either, directing agent Scott Boras to close a deal with full no-trade protection and no opt-out clauses, thereby fully committing to Philadelphia. Hoyer acknowledged the need for an MVP-level performer when he acquired Tucker from the Houston Astros last winter, giving up 14 years of club control over Cam Smith, Isaac Paredes and Hayden Wesneski for potentially a one-and-done season with Tucker. 'He's one of my favorites in the league,' Harper said. 'He's a big-moment player, a red light kind of player. It's a lot of fun to watch the way he does it. He's very impressive. It's kind of weird to see a superstar player like that get traded from a really good team to another really good team. Great for Cubs fans. Great for the team. Advertisement 'He's got a really good opportunity next year to make some pretty good coin.' The Cubs are getting a full season to recruit Tucker, 28, who is older than Harper was when Harper reached free agency. The cost of acquiring or retaining blue-chip talent has increased exponentially, as evidenced by Juan Soto's 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s 14-year, $500 million extension with the Toronto Blue Jays. The average annual value of Harper's deal is slightly above $25 million, an amount similar to what the Cubs have allocated for Gold Glove shortstop Dansby Swanson. When Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts was recently asked for a move that would have altered the franchise's trajectory — or a deal that did not happen that he still thinks about — he quickly answered during a sit-down interview with CNBC. 'We spent a lot of time thinking about what Bryce Harper's worth as a free agent,' Ricketts said. 'That's one that we kicked around that obviously we never executed on.' That video clip got back to Harper, who said he did not meet with the Cubs as a free agent or speak with Chicago's front office during that offseason. 'One of my buddies is a big Cubs fan,' Harper said. 'He sent it to me like: 'Man, what the heck? Why does he got to say this?' But it's one of those things. Looking back on it, it could have been really good, or it could have been really bad, right? You never know. I never fault any organization for not getting a player or not going after a player. 'They were in such a different timeframe at that time. You never know what an organization's going to do or where their next five years are going to be. You have no idea. At the time, it just didn't match or didn't work. It just kind of happens that way, sometimes, in sports and free agency.' Advertisement The Cubs carried the NL's highest payroll in 2019, but since then the organization's baseball budget has remained largely flat at a time when an aggressive group of owners have increased the cost of doing business. Phillies owner John Middleton, for example, has pushed his club's payroll into a different stratosphere. Harper's landmark deal helped set up a run to the 2022 World Series, a return to the NL Championship Series in 2023 and a 95-win season last year. Around the time of the Harper negotiations, the Cubs were not even halfway through Jason Heyward's eight-year, $184 million deal. Kris Bryant, Javier Báez and Anthony Rizzo were all angling for their next contracts. A lack of homegrown pitching forced the club to constantly search for expensive external solutions. Winning the 2016 World Series meant a century-and-counting championship drought no longer hung over the organization, possibly lessening the sense of urgency. The Cubs also kept drawing attention, in part, because Harper and Bryant grew up together in Las Vegas and enjoyed posting photos on social media that highlighted their friendship. 'Fans are going to play with that a little bit,' Harper said. 'I think it's fun; Kris is definitely a little bit more reserved than I am with that kind of stuff. But I think it was real. For me, it was definitely real, wanting to possibly come here and play. But, again, where the organization was, you had no idea what they were going to do. 'It was definitely something that I talked about — wanting to play in Wrigley, wanting to play in Chicago. One of the better meetings I had was with the White Sox on the other side (of the city). It just didn't pan out that way. 'Obviously, I'm extremely happy with where I am in Philadelphia. I would never change it for the world. I love the fan base, city, everything. It's a blast. But pre-2019, going into free agency, the Cubs were at the top of my list.' Tucker's list — if he even has one at this point — is not publicly known since he has taken the opposite approach to Harper's fun with social media, relying on standard quotes such as: 'I'm just here to play baseball.' Teammates, however, rave about Tucker's energy, confidence and attention to detail. Advertisement There's still a long way to go, but Tucker has to be considered an early frontrunner in the NL MVP race and the No. 1 projected free agent on next winter's big board. After sitting out the Harper talks, the Cubs should take a big swing here. The Friendly Confines should be a destination for the best players. 'It's my favorite visiting place to play,' Harper said. 'Just the vibes of Chicago and Wrigley Field and the ivy. When the wind's blowing in, it's not great, but it's just such a fun ballpark. The crowds show up. With the bleacher creatures out there, it was always fun listening to what they had to say behind me in right field. A summer day in Wrigley, man, it's one of the best baseball atmospheres in the league.'
New York Times
25-04-2025
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- New York Times
Cubs-Diamondbacks instant classic cracks top 5 of craziest games at Wrigley Field
So maybe you've heard of this ballpark named Wrigley Field. It's been around a while … by which we mean since the Woodrow Wilson administration. If you count the postseason, those Chicago Cubs have played more than 8,500 baseball games at Wrigley. Which feels like a lot. So when we tell you that a game there from the past week ranks with the all-time Wrigley classics, you should drop what you're doing (unless what you're doing is reading this column) and jolt to attention. Advertisement That game was last Friday, when the Cubs gave up 10 runs to Arizona in one inning … and then won anyway (13-11). But that doesn't even begin to capture this nutty game. (Here's the box score.) 'Your brain gets a little mushy when you're doing games like that,' said Jim Deshaies, the Cubs' awesome color analyst for Marquee Sports Network. 'When it's finally done, you're like: 'What the hell happened?'' Oh, we'll get to what the hell happened in a moment. But first … Here at Weird and Wild World HQ, we had a question: Is it possible this game deserves a place on the official list of the all-time wildest games ever played at Wrigley? Ready for the answer — from the man most capable of answering it, Ed Hartig, the Cubs' team historian? That would be … yes! Because Ed Hartig is a legend, he agreed to furnish us with his rankings of … 1. The 23-22 game — What a game. Phillies 23, Cubs 22 in 10 innings, on May 17, 1979. And what's so crazy about that game? Haha. Oh, just this stuff, Hartig said: Only those 45 runs … 50 hits … 15 walks … somebody scoring in eight of the 10 innings … 13 combined runs in the first inning … three half-innings with at least six runs scored … 11 home runs … six players with at least four RBIs … and the winning run scoring on a 10th-inning homer involving two Hall of Famers, Mike Schmidt off Bruce Sutter. Whew! 2. The 26-23 game — This was regarded as the Wrigley all-timer until that 23-22 game came along. It was Cubs 26, Phillies 23 on Aug. 25, 1922. And what was so crazy about that other Cubs-Phillies classic? That, Hartig said, would be this: Did you notice that adds up to 49 runs — making it merely the highest-scoring game in MLB history … and 51 hits … nine errors … 21 walks … the Cubs putting up innings of 10 and 14 runs to take a 25-6 lead … and then the Phillies scoring 14 runs over the last two innings and loading the bases before making the final out. Oh, and also … the same two teams played the next day and were 0-0 after 10 innings, because … baseball! Advertisement 3. Last Friday's Cubs-Diamondbacks game! Yes! More on this all-timer coming right up. 4. The 16-15 game — It's been almost half a century since this one: Cubs 16, Reds 15, in 13 innings, on July 28, 1977. So what was so crazy about that? Oh, man. How 'bout all this, Hartig said: Ten runs combined in the first inning … 18 runs in the first three innings … bonus craziness points when the Cubs pinch hit for their shortstop (Iván DeJesús) with an outfielder (José Cardenal) in the ninth, meaning Cardenal had to keep switching between second and short depending on who was batting … after which another outfielder, Bobby Murcer, replaced Cardenal and did the same thing for four more innings … and then the infielder they were switching with, Dave Rosello, made an error in the 12th inning that gave the Reds the lead … only to have (yep) Rosello win it with a 13th-inning single that drove in (why not) a pitcher (Rick Reuschel) for the wild finale. 5. The 12-11 game — This was the previous most recent classic: Cubs 12, Astros 11, in 11 innings, on Sept. 28, 1995. And how'd it make this list? Here's how, Hartig said: Possibly because the Cubs became the first team in history to trail in a game six times and still win. … Seriously. … They trailed by scores of 1-0 (in the first inning), 6-5 (in the sixth), 7-6 (in the seventh), 9-7 (in the eighth), 10-9 (in the 10th) and 11-10 (in the 11th) … and they won. Oh, and also … the two teams combined to use 45 players – 18 of them pitchers. Hartig also furnished us with an Honorable Mention list. Here come the four he left off the top-five list: Sept. 28, 1930 (Cubs trail Reds, 9-0, and win, 13-11) … April 30, 1949 (the legendary 'inside-the-glove' home run in which the tying and winning runs score while Andy Pafko argues with the ump that he just made a game-ending catch) … April 17, 1986 (Cubs blow a 12-1 lead to the Phillies and Mike Schmidt hits four homers) … Aug. 29, 1989 (Cubs trail, 9-0, again and win). So that's a lot of epic Wrigley nuttiness. But that's just the pregame show. Now it's time for … 1. The 10-run inning! Here we go. … No team had scored 10 runs in an inning all season. … The Cubs hadn't allowed 10-plus in an inning since Aug. 13, 2021. That was 552 games ago. … The Diamondbacks had scored 10-plus in an inning once in the 1,053 games they'd played since the start of the 2018 season. … And then they erupted for 10 in the eighth, to take the lead, at the national historical baseball monument known as Wrigley Field … and they lost. Which seems kinda rare. So … 2. Who the heck scores 10 in an inning and doesn't even win? Two dozen franchises in the modern era have never known what that feels like — to spin off a 10-run inning and lose. Oh, wait. Make that 23 franchises … thanks to the Diamondbacks. Advertisement Before last Friday, only two teams had done that in the past 92 seasons — the Royals (10 in the first against Cleveland on Aug. 23, 2006) and the Pirates (10 in the first in Philadelphia on June 8, 1989, aka the Jim Rooker 'If We Don't Win I'll Walk Back to Pittsburgh' Game). Thanks to the great Sarah Langs of for reminding us that three of the other four teams to do this did it in 1912 — the Yankees (on May 3 against the A's), the Braves (June 20, against the Giants) and Reds (Sept. 26, 1912, against the Cubs). And yes, that means the Cubs are the only team in the modern era to give up 10 in an inning twice and still win! But there's more because … 3. The D-Backs scored 10 in an inning and didn't even make it through that inning with the lead! This inning had been over for about 14 seconds when I heard from loyal reader Brian Coulter. He said he was 'looking forward' to me blowing up my life to look up the last time a team did this seemingly impossible thing. So yeah, I did that. Turns out only one other team in the modern era has ever scored 10-plus runs in an inning to take the lead — and then gave back that lead in the bottom of that inning. The other: Dick Hoblitzell's 1912 Reds. They were down, 9-0, against (yep, the Cubs) entering the ninth … then scored 10 to take the lead, 10-9 … then coughed up two runs in the bottom of the ninth … on four walks and a hit batter! But meanwhile, back here in 2025, the Cubs fired off seven hits in the bottom of the eighth, scored six times and miraculously turned this into the highest-scoring inning (by two teams) in the history of Wrigley Field … which as we've mentioned, has been around a while. Except that's still not all, because … 4. These teams scored 21 runs in an inning and a half! Twelve teams haven't played a whole game all season in which the two teams playing put up 21 runs (or more) … and the Cubs and D-Backs scored 21 just in an inning and a half. As in: five for the Cubs in the bottom of the seventh, 10 for Arizona in the top of the eighth and six more for the Cubs in the bottom of the eighth. So how'd that happen? Would you believe that over those three half-innings, the two teams combined to go 20-for-29 (.690) with five homers … because as Deshaies would put it, 'It's really tough to hit in the major leagues … until it's not.' According to loyal reader/friend of the column Eric Orns, there had been only three other games on record in which 21 runs were scored in an inning and a half — but one of them doesn't fit, because the 2023 Angels scored 21 by themselves. The other two were the Phillies and Pirates (7-9-6) on April 16, 1953, and the Indians and Red Sox (13-6-3) on April 10, 1977. But was any of that even the Weird and Wild part? As our friends from STATS Perform reported, in just those three half-innings, the two teams combined for … ready for all this? … a cycle, a home run cycle (slam, three-run, two-run, solo), six total homers, two slams and at least five runs in three half-innings. So what's so Weird and Wild about that? Just that … There had never been a game in history where all of those things happened in the whole game … and then the Cubs and Diamondbacks did all that in an inning and a half! Advertisement Un-be-freaking-lievable. But it was even more unbelievable because … 5. Before all that, this was just a 'normal' 2-1 game in the seventh! And you just don't see a 2-1 contest transform itself into a game this wacky after the seventh inning, friends. According to Orns, this was only the second time in the past century that a game was that low-scoring that late … and wound up with both teams scoring at least 10 runs. And the only other time happened as recently as 65 years ago! In that one, Reno Bertoia's Washington Senators took a 1-0 lead into the eighth against Minnie Miñoso's White Sox on Aug. 30, 1960 … and then it turned into an 11-10 game. But it took seven runs in the 10th to make that happen. So we're ruling: That wasn't this! Wow. Deep breath. What. A. Game. Digested it all yet? Cool. Now here's the question I asked Jim Deshaies: Could you please explain baseball? DESHAIES: 'Can anyone? You know better than anyone that you cannot. There's no explaining this.' WEIRD AND WILD: 'So all those words I write every week about this stuff are just a waste of time?' DESHAIES: 'No, I think it just continues to make the point — that you can't explain baseball.' W&W: 'So at what point during that game did you realize I was going to call you? DESHAIES: 'I would say, somewhere in the midst of that. After they got the 10 runs and then the Cubs started coming back, I said: This is a Jayson Stark moment. It's absolutely a Jayson moment.' W&W: 'OK then. Here I am. You're welcome!' And also … how amazing a sport is … Baseball! (Top photo of Seiya Suzuki celebrating an eighth-inning home run against the Diamondbacks on April 18: Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images)
