1000% agree.
I like to refer to Bryant as the National League central's next Pujols. I truly believe he will be the next Pujols. A hitting machine. El Hombre if you will.
when Pujols forced Larussa to keep him on the active roster, they did not have these rules.
however, had lastella and Olt not been injured I think Theo Epstein would have continued his pissing contest with Boras, keeping Bryant in triple A until May/June.
No chance. They probably faked those injuries just make it look like they were not planning to call him up
http://www.ifreepress.com/chicago-cubs-kris-bryant-jersey-is-top-seller/
[h=2]Chicago Cubs Kris Bryant jersey is top seller[/h]<!-- /.entry-header -->The list is based on sales of Majestic jerseys from MLB.com/shop, the official online shop of Major League Baseball, since Opening Day 2015.
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Rookie slugger Kris Bryant, who led the Chicago Cubs into the playoffs for the first time since 2008, had Major League Baseball’s best-selling jersey in 2015, according to sales posted on the league’s website on Monday.
Although they didn’t make the postseason this year, three San Francisco Giants made the top-ten, presumably riding a wave of good feelings from the team’s previous World Series win in 2014.
Although Bryant is the youngest of the group (23), the Giants’ catcher Buster Posey and Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen are the elder statesmen of the top-10 at merely 28.
Rounding out the top five is Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw (27) and 24-year-old Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout. The Cubs’ sales were up more than 80 percent over previous year, while the Mets saw 95 percent increase.
The All-Star finished the regular season with a. 275 batting average, 26 home runs, and 99 RBI in 151 games played.
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Although they didn’t make the postseason this year, three San Francisco Giants made the top-ten, presumably riding a wave of good feelings from the team’s previous World Series win in 2014.
Although Bryant is the youngest of the group (23), the Giants’ catcher Buster Posey and Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen are the elder statesmen of the top-10 at merely 28.
Rounding out the top five is Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw (27) and 24-year-old Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout. The Cubs’ sales were up more than 80 percent over previous year, while the Mets saw 95 percent increase.
The All-Star finished the regular season with a. 275 batting average, 26 home runs, and 99 RBI in 151 games played.
http://www.hngn.com/articles/139640...ed-rookie-of-the-year-by-baseball-america.htm
MLB NEWS: Chicago Cubs 3B Kris Bryant Named Rookie of the Year by Baseball America
Chicago Cubs rookie Kris Bryant took the MLB by storm in 2015.
By Thomas Carannante t.carannante@hngn.com | Oct 13, 2015 11:54 AM EDT
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Kris Bryant (Photo : Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
<!-- img_article end --><!-- tag start --><!-- tag end -->Kris Bryant is a big reason the Chicago Cubs are one win away from their first NLCS since 2003. The rookie made his MLB debut in mid-April and logged one of the most successful first-year campaigns in recent memory.
As a result, Baseball America named Bryant their MLB Rookie of the Year.
Bryant batted .275/.369/.488 with 87 runs scored, 26 home runs, 99 RBIs and 13 stolen bases in 151 games. He led all rookies in runs scored, doubles (31), home runs, RBIs, OPS (.858) and WAR (6.0). He was named to the NL All-Star team and should win NL Rookie of the Year when the BBWAA submit their votes after the 2015 MLB postseason comes to a close.
It's an unbelievable run, especially since Bryant did not make the MLB roster after a wildly impressive spring training. The 23-year-old batted .425/.477/1.175 with 14 runs scored, 9 home runs and 15 RBIs in 14 games (40 at-bats), but started the year off at Triple-A Iowa most likely due to service time considerations.
If the Cubs kept Bryant in the minors for the first 11 days of the 2015 season they would gain an extra year of club control over him before he became eligible for free agency, which is exactly what they did.
"I'm just playing with a chip on my shoulder," Bryant told Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago-Sun Times, who penned the piece for Baseball America. "All that stuff's in the past. I don't think about that at all. That's just how I play the game. I play hard. I play confidently. And I play because it's fun."
Baseball America has awarded Bryant with a number of other accolades in previous years. In 2014 the slugger was named Baseball America's Minor League Player of the Year and in 2013 he was recognized as Baseball America's College Player of the Year. It's the first time in the publication's history that a player has won all three awards.
MLB NEWS: Chicago Cubs 3B Kris Bryant Named Rookie of the Year by Baseball America
Chicago Cubs rookie Kris Bryant took the MLB by storm in 2015.
By Thomas Carannante t.carannante@hngn.com | Oct 13, 2015 11:54 AM EDT
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<!-- img_article end --><!-- tag start --><!-- tag end -->Kris Bryant is a big reason the Chicago Cubs are one win away from their first NLCS since 2003. The rookie made his MLB debut in mid-April and logged one of the most successful first-year campaigns in recent memory.
As a result, Baseball America named Bryant their MLB Rookie of the Year.
Bryant batted .275/.369/.488 with 87 runs scored, 26 home runs, 99 RBIs and 13 stolen bases in 151 games. He led all rookies in runs scored, doubles (31), home runs, RBIs, OPS (.858) and WAR (6.0). He was named to the NL All-Star team and should win NL Rookie of the Year when the BBWAA submit their votes after the 2015 MLB postseason comes to a close.
It's an unbelievable run, especially since Bryant did not make the MLB roster after a wildly impressive spring training. The 23-year-old batted .425/.477/1.175 with 14 runs scored, 9 home runs and 15 RBIs in 14 games (40 at-bats), but started the year off at Triple-A Iowa most likely due to service time considerations.
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"I'm just playing with a chip on my shoulder," Bryant told Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago-Sun Times, who penned the piece for Baseball America. "All that stuff's in the past. I don't think about that at all. That's just how I play the game. I play hard. I play confidently. And I play because it's fun."
Baseball America has awarded Bryant with a number of other accolades in previous years. In 2014 the slugger was named Baseball America's Minor League Player of the Year and in 2013 he was recognized as Baseball America's College Player of the Year. It's the first time in the publication's history that a player has won all three awards.
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http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/bryant-launches-29th-30th-homers-and-more-mvp-talk/Baseball 08/18/2016, 08:02pm <!-- BreakingNews.Index --> [h=1]Bryant launches 29th, 30th homers – and more MVP talk
Tuesday night after Anthony Rizzo made the catch of the season from the top of the short wall near the tarp in foul territory, the full-house crowd at Wrigley Field started chanting “M-V-P!” “M-V-P!” “M-V-P!”
Less than 48 hours, in five trips to the plate Thursday, Cubs teammate Kris Bryant made his own MVP noise – delivering his second five-hit game of the season, including two home runs and five RBIs to gift wrap a 15[SUP]th[/SUP] win of the season for Jake Arrieta against the Milwaukee Brewers.
“Well, we kind of expect him to perform at that level,” said Arrieta after surviving 5 2/3 innings and a career-high seven walks for the 9-6 win that gave the Cubs a four-game sweep of the Brewers. “He spoils us, he does it so often.”
And so it begins, as the Cubs head to Colorado to start a nine-game trip Friday that could be as much a showcase of the Cubs’ chase for personal postseason hardware as a chance to start the magic-number conversation on their other postseason chase.
Bryant, 24, became one of the five youngest Cubs to reach 30 homers in a season Thursday, tying the Rockies’ Nolan Arenado for the league lead just ahead of their showdown in the mountains.
Kyle Hendricks starts Friday in his continuing assault on the league ERA title – and his outsider candidacy for a Cy Young Award.
Arrieta (15-4), who tied Stephen Strasburg for most wins in the National League, remains in play for a second straight Cy Young as he heads into his next start, next week in San Diego.
But the main event under the Cubs’ traveling big top with 42 games left is the building MVP drama between All-Star buddies Bryant and Rizzo – with Washington’s Daniel Murphy playing Cub foil again, this time from afar.
“Absolutely,” manager Joe Maddon said, “and this next six weeks, it’s going to really separate them and put them definitely in that conversation.”
“We’ve obviously put ourselves in a good position to have that chatter,” said Rizzo, who doubled twice Thursday, boosting his OPS to .961 and his RBI total to 86 along the way. “But we’ve still got to go out and play every day and do what we do.”
For Bryant, his big day Thursday wasn’t even his biggest of the season. In June he became the first player in history to hit three homers and two doubles in a game, driving in six that night in Cincinnati.
“I don’t feel like this too often, but today was one of those days where I just was really locked in,” said Bryant, who could add MVP to the college player of the year, Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year and NL Rookie of the Year awards he’s won in successive seasons the last three years.
Either way, these guys have little chance of falling into the trap of past dual-threat MVP-candidate teammates.
In 1996, a 20-year-old Alex Rodriguez told so many people so many times in September that Mariners teammate Ken Griffey Jr. was the MVP of their team that it likely cost him the award that year in what turned out to be one of the closest MVP votes. Both Seattle writers had Griffey ahead of Rodriguez on their ballots.
The last time teammates finished 1-2, in 2000, Giants manager Dusty Baker influenced the vote by telling writers he considered Jeff Kent his MVP over Barry Bonds – and Kent won.
Maddon said he won’t fall for that one – casting his vote Thursday the same way he did in a conversation with the Sun-Times more than two weeks ago: “Bryzzo.”
Like Rodriguez and Griffey in ’96, Bryant, the right-hander, bats ahead of the lefty-slugging Rizzo in the 2-3 spots — or as the Cubs duo prefers to think of it, like Miguel Cabrera batting ahead of Prince Fielder when Cabrera won the Triple Crown in 2012.
“He always tells me, `I’m your Prince,’ “ Bryant said.
Not exactly fighting words in this would-be rivalry.
“They’re really good friends,” Maddon said.
“He’s won an award the last 15 years of his life, so it would probably just come natural,” Rizzo said of Bryant and the MVP. “If it was me, I’d probably have it in my locker and sleep with it.
“But it’s a long ways away. There’s a lot of baseball left to be played.”
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Tuesday night after Anthony Rizzo made the catch of the season from the top of the short wall near the tarp in foul territory, the full-house crowd at Wrigley Field started chanting “M-V-P!” “M-V-P!” “M-V-P!”
Less than 48 hours, in five trips to the plate Thursday, Cubs teammate Kris Bryant made his own MVP noise – delivering his second five-hit game of the season, including two home runs and five RBIs to gift wrap a 15[SUP]th[/SUP] win of the season for Jake Arrieta against the Milwaukee Brewers.
“Well, we kind of expect him to perform at that level,” said Arrieta after surviving 5 2/3 innings and a career-high seven walks for the 9-6 win that gave the Cubs a four-game sweep of the Brewers. “He spoils us, he does it so often.”
And so it begins, as the Cubs head to Colorado to start a nine-game trip Friday that could be as much a showcase of the Cubs’ chase for personal postseason hardware as a chance to start the magic-number conversation on their other postseason chase.
Bryant, 24, became one of the five youngest Cubs to reach 30 homers in a season Thursday, tying the Rockies’ Nolan Arenado for the league lead just ahead of their showdown in the mountains.
Kyle Hendricks starts Friday in his continuing assault on the league ERA title – and his outsider candidacy for a Cy Young Award.
Arrieta (15-4), who tied Stephen Strasburg for most wins in the National League, remains in play for a second straight Cy Young as he heads into his next start, next week in San Diego.
But the main event under the Cubs’ traveling big top with 42 games left is the building MVP drama between All-Star buddies Bryant and Rizzo – with Washington’s Daniel Murphy playing Cub foil again, this time from afar.
“Absolutely,” manager Joe Maddon said, “and this next six weeks, it’s going to really separate them and put them definitely in that conversation.”
“We’ve obviously put ourselves in a good position to have that chatter,” said Rizzo, who doubled twice Thursday, boosting his OPS to .961 and his RBI total to 86 along the way. “But we’ve still got to go out and play every day and do what we do.”
For Bryant, his big day Thursday wasn’t even his biggest of the season. In June he became the first player in history to hit three homers and two doubles in a game, driving in six that night in Cincinnati.
“I don’t feel like this too often, but today was one of those days where I just was really locked in,” said Bryant, who could add MVP to the college player of the year, Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year and NL Rookie of the Year awards he’s won in successive seasons the last three years.
Either way, these guys have little chance of falling into the trap of past dual-threat MVP-candidate teammates.
In 1996, a 20-year-old Alex Rodriguez told so many people so many times in September that Mariners teammate Ken Griffey Jr. was the MVP of their team that it likely cost him the award that year in what turned out to be one of the closest MVP votes. Both Seattle writers had Griffey ahead of Rodriguez on their ballots.
The last time teammates finished 1-2, in 2000, Giants manager Dusty Baker influenced the vote by telling writers he considered Jeff Kent his MVP over Barry Bonds – and Kent won.
Maddon said he won’t fall for that one – casting his vote Thursday the same way he did in a conversation with the Sun-Times more than two weeks ago: “Bryzzo.”
Like Rodriguez and Griffey in ’96, Bryant, the right-hander, bats ahead of the lefty-slugging Rizzo in the 2-3 spots — or as the Cubs duo prefers to think of it, like Miguel Cabrera batting ahead of Prince Fielder when Cabrera won the Triple Crown in 2012.
“He always tells me, `I’m your Prince,’ “ Bryant said.
Not exactly fighting words in this would-be rivalry.
“They’re really good friends,” Maddon said.
“He’s won an award the last 15 years of his life, so it would probably just come natural,” Rizzo said of Bryant and the MVP. “If it was me, I’d probably have it in my locker and sleep with it.
“But it’s a long ways away. There’s a lot of baseball left to be played.”
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