Ian Happ

Yeah, a lot of maintenance.

I've been lucky to be pretty healthy through my career, so a lot of reinforcing some of the things that have kept me on the field and kept me available.

A lot of running this offseason, a lot of speed, a lot of running, and just working on some form and technique stuff, but getting in the gym to start running earlier.

And I think just as you go through your career, there's little things that year in, year out that you want to tweak, and that was a big one for me this year.

It was pretty electric.

was lucky to be in Chicago for kind of the full week, went to the Bears game.

But just the mix between the energy of the city from what the Bears were doing, the 16 team back to celebrate 10 years, and kind of the energy from our season, that was an unbelievable mix, and the fans were so, so excited, and it was really fun to see.

Yeah, it's just electric.

And the city, we're so lucky, though.

Fan base sits behind us no matter what.

But I tell guys all the time, there's nothing like winning here.

And when you're in the middle of the summer and you're in first place and you're playing good baseball, it's not only Wrigleyville and Wrigley Field.

It's the entire city that's excited, lit up.

Cubs jerseys, Cubs hats all over the city.

People are excited about it.

And it doesn't get any better than...

middle of July, middle of August, being in first place and that place jumping.

Yeah, I mean, you keep in touch with a bunch of guys.

It's been great to kind of check in on guys throughout the offseason.

Pete was around over the holidays, and we got to work out together and hit together a little bit at Wrigley, which was great.