Willson Contreras

The Chicago Cubs went into the 2022 MLB Trade Deadline with expectations to be the biggest sellers. They did trade four relievers but they kept both Willson Contreras and Ian Happ who were some of the most popular trade chips on the block. In the case of Willson Contreras, it...

Hug me brother: Morel elated Contreras still with Cubs originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago. As the clock ticked toward MLB’s trade deadline, Cubs rookie Christopher Morel says he was “counting down the minutes.”. Willson Contreras, who’s been a mentor to Morel and has taken him under his...

Cubs catcher Willson Contreras was unsure if he would still be playing home games in Chicago as the trade deadline

After not being traded at the deadline, the catcher returned to Wrigley Field and hit the go-ahead homer in a 2-1 win over the Marlins on Friday.

On July 26, Willson Contreras grew emotional when faced with the possibility of his last home game with the Chicago

The Cubs have struggled at the plate all day today. Fortunately, they just broke through in the bottom of the 8th inning. Willson Contreras just blasted a 396-foot two-run home run to give the Cubs the lead.

Contreras' dramatic Wrigley return: ‘Couldn’t write it better’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago. When Willson Contreras stepped up for his first plate appearance Friday, he received a 20-second standing ovation from Cubs fans welcoming him back to Wrigley Field. Contreras, who was widely expected to be...

The Cubs were getting shut out on one hit by a not-very-great Marlins team and honestly, there wasn’t much to this game, which was dragging by at a pretty slow pace. Until the eighth inning, when not-traded Willson Contreras, who had received several warm ovations earlier in the contest, slammed a home run into the left-field bleachers with Nick Madrigal on base. Rowan Wick finished things off in the ninth and the Cubs ended a five-game losing streak with a 2-1 win over the Marlins on a gorgeous summer afternoon at Wrigley Field.

Willson Contreras, to the surprise of many, is still a Chicago Cub after the MLB Trade Deadline came and went earlier this week. This apparently even came as a stunner to the Cubs’ official team store at Wrigley Field, as Chicago Tribune columnist Paul Sullivan pointed out that the star catcher’s jersey had been taken off the shelves. Even Nick Madrigal, who is batting .222 with no home runs and two RBIs in his first season with the Cubs, has a jersey up on a hanger in the shop. In the lead-up to the deadline, there were all sorts of rumors and...

To many people’s surprises, the Chicago Cubs did not trade Willson Contreras at the trade deadline this year. Many teams were said to be in on the Contreras sweepstakes, but it appears that each of the suitors found the Cubs asking price to be too high. Even those closely...

Willson Contreras is still a member of the Chicago Cubs, something most of us did not expect but were pleasantly surprised to learn on Tuesday after the trade deadline. Contreras was quite happy as well, and there’s reason to believe that it’s now more likely the Cubs will be able to sign him to an extension. We’ll see about that.

Contreras went 2-for-8 with a walk, a double, a solo home run and two runs scored across both games of Thursday's doubleheader against the Cardinals. Contreras did his damage early in the matinee, taking St. Louis starter Miles Mikolas deep in the first inning. The catcher, who perhaps surprisingly didn't leave Chicago before the trade deadline, now has 15 home runs and an .835 OPS this season. He should be primed for a strong finish to the year in a familiar environment, though the 41-63 Cubs may opt to mix in some rest days.

The image of Ian Happ and Willson Contreras embracing in the home dugout at Wrigley Field represented a moment of goodbyes for what appeared to await the Chicago Cubs All-Stars. That moment one week ago now becomes a reminder of the ups and downs leading up to the trade deadline, the uncertainties of the unknown. Both players thought that July 26 day was their last at Wrigley in a Cubs ...