This roster move has been expected ever since Jed Hoyer announced last August that Jason Heyward would not be with the team in 2023.
Today, the Cubs made it official:
The Cubs also paid tribute to J-Hey on Twitter:
Thank you for every moment, J-Hey. https://t.co/npdeapmLE8 pic.twitter.com/i3uwAJmUlF
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) November 14, 2022
I don’t have a lot more to say today than what I wrote in appreciation of Heyward back in August, but I thought I’d post this excerpt from it, which followed a portion of Tom Verducci’s book about the World Series that cited how Heyward’s clubhouse speech during Game 7 helped fire up Cubs players (then, please go read the rest of it):
Baseball is not just a game of numbers.