Cubs Insider · Jan 2, 2025
Latest Alex Bregman-Cubs Rumor Sounds Like Scott Boras Seeking Leverage
Remember how rumors of the Cubs being interested in Corbin Burnes conveniently cropped up as soon as they’d officially cleared $25 million of Cody Bellinger‘s salary? Never mind that every single report from the beginning of the offseason was that they weren’t pursuing Burnes or that the six-year, $210 million deal the Cubs wouldn’t have done was actually lower than he was reportedly offered by other teams. Whether it was just social media rumor mongers connecting anecdotes or Burnes’s reps chumming the water, there wasn’t much credence to the notion. Now we’ve got Jon Heyman saying he “wouldn’t be shocked” if Alex Bregman ended up on the North Side of Chicago.