Happy New Year from the Harpers and the Bryants and Other Bullets

I hope you all had a fun and safe New Year’s Eve and celebrated well into today. We had some kid-related fun, and then I slept. It was a joyous event.

As for this place, we get to say there is NEW BASEBALL THIS YEAR! Doesn’t it feel good to put 2018 Cubs baseball behind us and look ahead to the 2019 season? Sure, it’d be easier to be excited if there were some notable additions in the bullpen and on the impact side of the offense, but whatever comes on the transaction front, the Cubs are going to go into the season looking like a strong contender to win the NL Central. Really, that’s what you want at this point in the year.

But about those transactions …

  • Happy New Year from the Harpers and the Bryants and I’m never sayin’ I’m just sayin’:
  • https://www.instagram.com/p/BsGafbqA5FA/

  • Elsewhere in light-hearted fun, the photo of the 2018 year:
  • Willson Contreras wins:
  • https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/status/1079853973060882437

  • The Cubs shared some of the calls of the year:
  • As the calendar flipped to 2019, the Mariners landed Yusei Kikuchi on an extremely unique contract.
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    Brett Taylor is the Lead Cubs Writer at Bleacher Nation, and you can find him on Twitter at @BleacherNation and on LinkedIn here. Brett is also the founder of Bleacher Nation, which opened up shop in 2008 as an independent blog about the Chicago Cubs. Later growing to incorporate coverage of other Chicago sports, Bleacher Nation is now one of the largest regional sports blogs on the web.

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