\u201cWe\u2019ve met with Cruz and his representatives from Newport Sports a number of times. And I think just right after the trade deadline, they informed us that he was not going to be signing in Pittsburgh for a few reasons. That it\u2019s up to him to share.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a personal thing for him. But obviously, we felt we had a great opportunity for him. And obviously, the proof is in the pudding on the development side.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut players are entitled to make their decision. And I don\u2019t think we\u2019re at the position here anymore where we have to beg people to come. So when it comes to his decision making on it, then I think passing up a chance to get into the American League and developing here over.. (he) would have been a month already now.<\/p>\n
But obviously, the next few months and it\u2019s, especially when your (college) team doesn\u2019t qualify for anything, it\u2019s a big miss. But that\u2019s his decision and his right. And we\u2019ll just move on to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve met with Cruz and his representatives from Newport Sports a number of times. And I think just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[3,385,99],"class_list":["post-560793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560793","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=560793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}