Ex-Cubs return to ring-ly Field

Aroldis Chapman and Adam Warren will receive their World Series rings on Friday when the Yankees visit the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Neither played a full season with the Cubs. Warren had a horrific stretch with the team before being shipped back to the Yankees in the midseason trade that sent Chapman from the Yankees to Chicago. And Chapman nearly blew Game 7 of the World Series when he gave up a game-tying homer to Cleveland’s Rajai Davis.

Still, both players will get the coveted hardware.

Starlin Castro, who signed with the Cubs out of the Dominican Republic and spent his f irst six major league seasons with the team, will watch from the dugout.

Asked if he would be jealous of his teammates, Castro shook his head.

“It’s gonna be good,’’ Castro said. “It didn’t happen for me when I was there. But it will be pretty good to see. I feel very good for them.”

That is why he took in the World Series as a Cubs fan.

“I’m glad the Cubbies won,’’ Castro said. “I have a lot of good relationships with my old teammates.”

Speaking of relationships, Chapman insisted there will be no hard feelings when he and Cubs manager Joe Maddon meet again.

After he re-signed with the Yankees in December, Chapman criticized Maddon’s usage of him during the postseason, saying he was put in games he shouldn’t have been. Chapman, though, said any issues between them were patched up during the team’s visit to the White House to celebrate their victory later that month.

“I have a good relationship with him,” Chapman said through an interpreter. “I look forward to having a chat with him about anything.”

When the two saw each other in Washington, Chapman said Maddon congratulated him on his new contract with the Yankees.

Like Castro, Chapman is curious to see how he is received by the Wrigley faithful.

“Hopefully [with] cheers,” Chapman said. “We’ll see.”

Castro added, “It’s gonna be fun to go back to Wrigley. … I want to go out there and see how fans react to seeing me for the first time since I left. I can’t wait to see.”

The l ast t i me Castro played at Wrigley Field, it was Game 4 of the 2015 NLCS, and he was still the shortstop for the Cubs.

The Cubs were swept by the Mets in that series, and with Addison Russell, Javier Baez and Ben Zobrist either already in Chicago or on their way, Castro was sent to the Yankees that offseason.

After a respectable first season in The Bronx, Castro now leads the American League in hits and has an OPS of .945.

He isn’t sure if his current success will make his return any easier, but said, “No matter how I’m hitting, I try to do my job and just compete against my exteammates.”

Like Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo.

“He’s one of the guys that started with me,” Castro said. “I got there before him, but he was the second guy [there] and we were together five straight years.”

Which is one of the reasons why Castro called watching the World Series from afar “pretty emotional.”

“I was nervous,” Castro said. “They came back from 3-1 [in games]. That’s pretty awesome. I root because of the city of Chicago and all my ex-teammates.”

He soon will find out if those fans still root for him.