Watch Kris Bryant fight back tears the moment he found out Cubs traded him to Giants (Video)
By Josh Hill
Kris Bryant was traded to the Giants on Friday afternoon, but the last image of him in a Cubs uniform is going to break hearts all over Wrigleyville.
Nightmare fuel became reality on Friday as Chicago Cubs fans were forced to come to grips with a Kris Bryant trade actually happening.
It was inevitable that Bryant would be traded by the Cubs ahead of Friday’s MLB Trade Deadline. As the hours melted into minutes before the deadline passed, fans talked themselves into imagining a pristine world where the deadline passed Bryant was still a Cub, running out onto the Wrigley Field grass for the game scheduled to be played that night.
In an instant, that fantasy was shattered and reality set in. With under ten minutes before the deadline was set to pass, the trade call came in — Bryant was headed to the San Francisco Giants.
As though news of the trade wasn’t brutal enough, the reaction from Bryant to hearing he was no longer a member of the Cubs is somehow even harder to accept.
Kris Bryant trade: Former Cubs star breaks down after learning about trade
First off, that’s a helluva thing for fans to soak in: Former Cubs star Kris Bryant.
Marquee Network cameras captured Bryant in the Cubs dugout the moment he got the call he had been traded to the Giants.
Bryant then fights the urge to break down in tears:
https://twitter.com/WatchMarquee/status/1421206212775792642
There’s still a possibility that Bryant returns to Chicago in free agency. He said as much earlier this week when asked if he’d ever come back to the Cubs, and he’s dropped other hints that suggest he doesn’t want to leave Chicago.
Watching him break down in the dugout after hearing about a trade out of Chicago will only reinforce that notion with fans on the North Side.