
Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson made his first All-Star Game a year ago, and won a World Series a season before that. In case you forgot that Marcus Stroman made an All-Star team in 2019, he was wearing his old hat from that game while addressing the media Sunday.
Not to take anything away from them, the emergence of 27-year-old left-hander Justin Steele as a star worthy of joining those two veterans in Seattle to represent the Cubs at the All-Star Game next week took top billing—at least in the clubhouse.