Although the separation in 2021 felt inevitable, I don’t think there is a Chicago Cubs fan anywhere that wished Kris Bryant anything other than the very best in whatever came next in his career. He’ll forever be a hero as part of the 2016 team, and we’ll remember his tremendous performances throughout his six and a half seasons with the Cubs.
What happened thereafter, however, has uniformly been a disaster. Bryant signed a monster contract with the Colorado Rockies, and immediately was injured and underperforming to such a degree that he’s played in just 170 games total in four seasons with the Rockies, hitting .244/.324/.370/82 wRC+, and posting a -1.8 WAR. He will have played in just 11 games this season, and he’s trying to get over a degenerative back condition.
I hate it for him. I can’t imagine the frustration that he’s felt, to say nothing of the physical toll the injuries have taken.
ESPN has an interesting piece up on the state of the Colorado Rockies organization – arguably the worst-run MLB organization over the last decade or so – and Bryant comes in for a not-inconsequential discussion. It just makes me feel all the worse for Bryant:
“Executives of other teams thought Colorado overpaid Bryant by many tens of millions. “And what difference did [Monfort] expect that he was going to make?” one asked rhetorically. Bryant has played 170 games in his four seasons with Colorado, hitting just 17 homers with a .695 OPS, and generating -1.6 WAR. This year, the 33-year-old Bryant played in 11 games and hit zero homers before being lost for the season with a degenerative back injury; he’s owed $81 million for the next three seasons.
“I’m a big part of some of the failures here right now,” an emotional Bryant told ESPN. “It eats at me every day … I’d rather go out there and suck as a baseball player than sit here in pain every day.”‘
Oof. That stung me just to read, and I hope he isn’t actually as miserable as that makes it sound.
It makes me want to root all the more loudly for Bryant to return to health in 2026 and finally put together another good season. Maybe it’s unlikely at this point, and maybe we should just be rooting for him not to be in pain all the time. But I don’t want to see him go out like this.
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