Kris Bryant Thought He Got Traded To The Mets Because Of A Prank Text

For a brief moment in time, Kris Bryant thought he got traded to the New York Mets. The Cubs’ third baseman told reporters on Thursday that he received a text from a Connecticut number he was unfamiliar with. The message was very short but startling. It read “Welcome to the Mets”. It didn’t take much time for him to sort the situation out. Bryant called his agent, Scott Boras, and Boras called Cubs GM Jed Hoyer. Hoyer said the report wasn’t true.

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Kris Bryant has been facing trade rumors all offseason, so it’s fair that he was caught off guard by the unknown prankster. Despite it inevitably being untrue, the initial text worried Bryant.

“That’s the kind of stuff that I feel like is nice to know,” Bryant said. “When there’s something that’s completely false. Because at the end of the day, we are all human, and sometimes when you get a text that says something like that, it’s like, well, that might kind of mess with me a little bit.”

The scary part for me is that this is the life that professional athletes live. It very well could have been true and finding out from a random number would be both sad and terrifying if true. It could be a complete coincidence, but it feels like this person has Bryant’s identity. That would be, at the very least, unsettling.

As for Bryant’s future, that’s still to be determined. He becomes a free agent after this season. With no contract extension insight, this may very well be his last season with the Cubs.

False trade rumors suck. Especially when you don’t know the source. Maybe Kris Bryant will have a big year and lock up a contract extension. At least for now, he has some breathing room.

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