Almost free, Willy.
Free to stop wondering if the Cubs love him or love him not. Free to get on with his baseball life. Free to win again.
And what might that be like?
“I’m pretty much happy to help another team get to the World Series,” Willson Contreras said Tuesday after a 4-2 win against the Pirates in what he had every reason to assume was his final home game as a Cub.
Happy? Sure, even if the thought of being traded before baseball’s Aug. 2 deadline makes him very sad — which it most certainly does — and even if it’s hard as hell to say goodbye to Wrigley Field, which he spent the entirety of an all-too-brief two-game homestand doing.