{"id":409355,"date":"2026-01-15T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:30:08","slug":"why-alex-bregman-chose-to-wear-no-3-as-a-new-cub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409355\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Alex Bregman chose to wear No. 3 as a new Cub"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Cubs<\/a> third baseman Alex Bregman extended his arm through the blue-pinstriped jersey that bore the Cubs logo on its front and a No. 3 on its back.<\/p>\n

Cameras clicked around the new conference room at the team\u2019s offices across from Wrigley Field, capturing the first images of Bregman in a Cubs jersey since agreeing to a five-year contract over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wore number three because I wanted a third championship,\u201d Bregman said during his introductory press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Bregman\u2019s two World Series Championships were with the Astros, in 2017 \u2013 when the team was embroiled in a sign-stealing scandal \u2013 and 2022.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s worn No. 2 his whole career, including a one-season stop in Boston last year. But Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner already had No. 2, and Bregman said he didn\u2019t ask him to give it up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard he\u2019s amazing,\u201d Bregman said of Hoerner. \u201cAll the guys love him. Student of the game, plays hard, shows up ready to play every single day, a guy that wants to win really badly. And looking forward to being his teammate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bregman\u2019s five-year, $175 million deal<\/a> puts him squarely in the Cubs\u2019 long-term plans after breaking their four-year playoff drought last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who\u2019s spent time around our office, around me, knows that this is a player that I\u2019ve coveted for a long time, that our department has coveted for a long time,\u201d president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier to bring Alex to Chicago, to this great fan base, to Wrigley, and couldn\u2019t be more excited to put this uniform on Alex.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman extended his arm through the blue-pinstriped jersey that bore the Cubs logo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-409355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}