PITTSBURGH -- Calling it the "most special" selection for him yet, Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant made his third All-Star team just a few months removed from completing rehab on an injured left shoulder that hampered him for much of last season.
"It's just nice when you don't make it for a couple years, then you make it, it's like, 'Yeah, I'm still the same player,'" Bryant said Sunday afternoon.
The All-Star selection comes after some rare criticism, at times, over the past 12 months or so -- albeit mostly on social media.