You know, the reason we're sitting here today,
um, is that whenever you're gonna make a significant
commitment in years and dollars to a player, you
have to feel great about the person, about the
human that you're investing in, and I couldn't feel
better, uh, about that with Alex, um
. People that have spent time around Alex know that
he is, you know, obsessed with hitting,
um, obsessed with winning, um, and if
that focus was entirely on just Alex's performance, that
would be impressive, but I think where Alex takes
it to another level, uh, is his focus
on his teammates and his focus on the organization and
how we can all do things the right way,
you know, towards winning so when you do make
a significant significant commitment to a player, you wanna
make sure that. The person and the player are
both at the highest level and with Alex we know
that so I couldn't be happier to bring Alex to
Chicago to this great fan base to Wrigley and um
couldn't be more excited to put this uniform on.
I'm a winning baseball player and focused on winning and
and talking with Jed and. Carter, throughout this
process I I know that the Cubs organization is focused
on winning and I'm looking forward to doing that and
winning a championship here. They're willing to do what
it takes to win at this level, and um
they're committed to doing that and um through many conversations
with Jed and um Carter and uh a lot of
the staff here already, um you can you can
really sense that and um. I'm really looking forward
to it, ready to get to work. Being
here for the last few days and going to see
how much the city loves its sports has been awesome
actually. My father and I and uncle kind of
did Bulls, Blackhawks, and Bears maybe in 2016
or so, uh, one offseason in like a
three day time period, so. They were jealous
that they weren't at the games the last two days
, but it kind of just. The city of
Chicago loves sports and um they love winning and um
hopefully uh we can win win a lot for them
. We talked about all the players in the clubhouse
and how focused on winning they are, um,
just a good group of guys, a combination of
veteran players and young players and guys that want to
win, guys that are pulling on the same end
of the rope. When it comes to leadership,
I feel like you need to find out what makes
people tick, what makes people get the best out
of themselves, and hold them accountable to it every
day. From from the beginning of the offseason,
the Cubs expressed to me that they wanted me to
be here and um. They were committed to that
and committed to my family and um. Yeah,
I cannot wait to get to work with all the
guys on the team in that clubhouse and hopefully,
um, we can win a lot of baseball games
and build something really special for, for a long
time together. So did you talk to Nico Horner
about#2, and is that somebody you're looking forward
to playing with? I'm definitely looking forward to it
. Um, no, I didn't talk to him
. I just, I wore number 3 because I
wanted a 3rd championship.