I haven’t seen reports of any particular players showing up to camp in the best shape of their lives, but Kyle Hendricks already has his cliché game on point. The Professor has always come across as a future front office exec in training, and he was doing his best Jed Hoyer impersonation on Thursday morning as organized activities continued at Sloan Park.
“It’s amazing,” Hendricks told CHGO’s Ryan Herrera and other reporters gathered at his locker. “There’s no other place I want to be. Best organization in the whole league, best fans in the whole league by far, and just these guys, you know, it’s family.