This is exactly the deal Cody Bellinger wanted. Just listen to him.
“Presumably at the beginning of the winter, you sort of imagined what you thought the winter would look like and how things would play out,” I said during Wednesday’s press conference at the Cubs’ spring-training facility in Arizona with regard to the three-year, $80 million contract Bellinger signed with Chicago earlier this week. That sum landed something like six years and $100 million south of what some outlets projected. “How close was what actually happened to what you envisioned in October or November?”
Bellinger turned silently to his left, where his agent, Scott Boras, was sitting.
