Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks said last year’s selloff of the All-Star core was a “shock” that lessened the emotional impact of the 2022 reality.
Of course, that’s the big difference this time. Only three of those players are left.
The Cubs are in full rebuild mode with Hendricks currently sharing a rotation with two second-year pitchers and two rookies as veterans Marcus Stroman, Wade Miley and Drew Smyly rehab injuries. Beyond that, he embraces a mentoring role with the young starters around him — something the drew praise from his manager Sunday — and braces for the next wave of departures.
“I never played with someone like that group of guys for that amount of time,” said Hendricks, whose big-league debut came in 2014 on the day Rizzo threw down his glove and challenged the 25 occupants of the Reds dugout to a fight — a few months of baseball before Joe Maddon and Jon Lester signed up for a 2015 season that launched an era for the Cubs.
Nine players were traded by the Cubs last July in their first deadline selloff since the 2014 Jeff Samardzija-Jason Hammel trade for Addison Russell that opened the spot in the rotation for Hendricks to debut and audition the rest of that season.
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