"I know some things were said about him before I was here when I was younger, but I never saw any inkling of that," said Kyle Hendricks, who joined the Cubs in the middle of the 2014 season when Castro earned his third NL All-Star selection. "I thought he always came ready to play and gave it his all. One of the reasons we started winning was because of him, his attitude and he wanted to win with ( Anthony Rizzo ).