Rizzo 削減（する）s off 会談 with Cubs as 解放する／自由な 機関 ぼんやり現れるs
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Anthony Rizzo is cutting off 会談 with the Chicago Cubs on a new 契約 and is 用意が出来ている to play the season as 解放する／自由な 機関 ぼんやり現れるs after the World Series.
The first baseman, who in 2016 helped the Cubs 勝利，勝つ their first 肩書を与える in 108 years, agreed in March 2013 to a $41 million, seven-year 契約 that 含むd two team 選択 years. He has a $16.5 million salary this season and 始める，決める a 最終期限 of 開始 day for a new 協定.
"明白に there's been 会談 and whatnot, but it doesn't look like really at this time anything is going to be 完結するd and look 今後 to just 開始 up Thursday and starting this 旅行 with this team," Rizzo said Monday.
His preference is to stay with the Cubs. He won't listen to an 申し込む／申し出 unless it is at a level の近くに to what he thinks the 提案 should be.
"We've given a lot during this 過程 here and I think with the 開始-day 最終期限, we feel really strong about it," Rizzo 追加するd. "And we´ve had enough time to talk and try to 人物／姿／数字 it out. But I think once the season starts for me 本人自身で, it's 焦点（を合わせる）d on baseball. And if my mind isn't 100 パーセント on baseball and it's どこかよそで, it's hard enough to play. So I think once Thursday comes I think we just - I 焦点（を合わせる） on baseball and that's it. And I told my スパイ／執行官s, I told them really not to talk to me about it anymore, even from this point on really. And like I said earlier, it was good just to have clarity one way or the other, and now I can get ready for the season."
Third baseman Kris Bryant and shortstop Javier B?ez also are entering the final season of their 契約s. Bryant has a $19.5 million salary and B?ez $11.65 million.
Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo follows through on a base 攻撃する，衝突する during the first inning of a spring training baseball game against the Oakland 運動競技のs, Friday, March 19, 2021, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
"When you think of the actual just 商売／仕事 味方する of it," Rizzo said, "you can´t just be na?ve to think that just because of what I´ve done here and what I´ve 表明するd, I'm just - they´re just going to 手渡す me a 契約, 権利? So I have to go out and earn it. And I look 今後 to just continuing to play and be me."
Rizzo, who turns 32 in August, 攻撃する，衝突する .222 with 11 ホームランs and 24 打点s during the pandemic-縮めるd 2020 season. The three-time All-星／主役にする has a .271 career 普通の／平均（する） with 229 ホームランs and 753 打点s in 10 major league seasons.
"I love Chicago. I love the fans. I love Wrigley Field and (what) 存在 a Chicago Cub is all about but 明白に it didn't work out thus far, and that's 承認する," Rizzo said. "I'm at peace with it. I've done everything I can."
Rizzo understands fan unhappiness with a 欠如（する） of spending by the Cubs and roster 新規加入s to the level many would like to see.
"From an 部外者 looking in, I'd probably be 失望させるd, too, just because you have this team that's very talented and we've 肉親，親類d of - we 港／避難所't lived up to our 期待s the last few years," Rizzo said. "If I'm sitting 支援する, too, I'm not happy because I want my team to 勝利，勝つ all the time."
He knows this is the final season of his 契約 and has no idea whether this will be his last year with the Cubs.
"I can't tell you what the 未来 持つ／拘留するs," he said.
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Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo, left, 反応するs after 存在 tagged out by San Francisco 巨大（な）s catcher Buster Posey, 権利, at home plate during the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
