![]() Kevin Durant Fires Back at Fans After Playoff Disappointment With time, the blemishes of a failed 2021 return engagement that included a snarky anti-mask comment to a veteran Cubs reporter over his final Zoom call will fade as his 2014-17 contributions become set in the marble foundation of team history, alongside the likes of Three-Finger Brown, Pete Alexander, Fergie Jenkins and teammates Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks. With the news Monday of his retirement at 36, that’s how Arrieta should be remembered - as one of the greatest pitchers in the game for a three- or four-year peak with the Cubs that included a 2015 Cy Young Award and the 2016 championship more than a century in the making. Get the NBC 5 Chicago app for iOS or Android and pick your alerts.īut nothing that happened during that ill-fated 2021 season on the mound or on Zoom can diminish the historic and outsized role he played for a franchise that desperately sought an end to the longest championship drought in American professional sports history. Stay informed about local news and weather.
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