I forgot to mention this on the podcast: At no point during the press conference did Jed Hoyer speak about trying to win a CHAMPIONSHIP. And that also upset me. -Sam
Hoyer is just a big phoney . I wouldn't believe a word he says . This guy is an expert at passing the buck and lying to the fans , and he's been lying to us since Theo left . And as far as Alzolay goes , Hoyer was a fool to go into the season satisfied with anointing a headcase with questionable talent as the closer rather than fixing the position with a proven successful closer . And is Paredes a guy you want to see as your future at 3rd? He might as well had just kept Candelario , neither one is a star and that's what you need to have at the hot corner ideally . But again Hoyer settles , he's the champion dumpster diver of MLB execs . It's so Cubs , so Ricketts .
So is Hoyer just a patsy for the owner,the owner just wants a 500 team figuring the fans like the old days will still show up,first talk to Oakland,get Miller,lock down the closer problems,trade our 2nd baseman.could Busch play 2nd,then you can get first baseman they want,Toronto or Mets,but probably do nothing,an if stadium is a problem,change it a bit,I know the vines are kinda cool, but people would forget quick,an he talks like he's saying something,but says nothing
And it appears to be the only one we have. Everyone (position players, I mean) appears to have underperformed. You expect Cody, Nico, and Dansby to have been better. You expect PCA, who was brilliant in flashes, to continue to improve. Likewise, Michael Busch. You add Caleb Kilian to the rotation and hope that he's as good as he appears to be... But what is the path forward for the Cubs most hotly anticipated prospects? Where is there an opening for Matt Shaw -- how do you work him into the lineup? I like Cody's bat-to-ball skills, but why does Nico appear to have taken a step backward? I can't help thinking this team is better than it played, but even at their best, they're not currently better than the Dodgers and Padres, so where do you go from here? And whatever you do is gonna require some cutting-edge coaching.
You know what I just recently started getting into you guy’s content… You guys do great work! Keep it up. I didn’t think I was going to enjoy a conversation about how Jed doesn’t seem to care at all… Magically I did. Thanks guys! You’ve been a bright spot on this relative turd of a season.
We put all the blame on Jed but Ricketts needs to take half of it also. Tom needs to step up and tell Jed go get Soto, go get Burnes and let’s win this thing.
Bro i been this before season started lol the Ricketts family handicap whoever GM and president is they Don't want compete spend what it takes to get the big names and thats been the history of the cubs
how? The results per $ spent hasn’t been there. If someone keeps wasting millions I provide, I’d tighten spending more than Ricketts has. The fact is that the Cubs spent over the threshold for 83 wins. Ricketts outspent the Brewers and the Cardinals. What Hoyer did was overspend on guys like Swanson and Bellinger in what appears to have been moves to satisfy fanatics demanding he sign them. Fanatics wet themselves until he extended Ian Happ and Hoerner. Now he’s back in the same financial corner Theo left him in… without anything to show for it. To me the model should be to have a farm system that produces 2-3 contributors every year and fill in via trade or free agency with a legitimate run producer, closer, etc. Hoyer has done some good things such as rebuilding the farm system, signing Shota, Taillon plus trading for Michael Busch. The farm system needs to start producing on the major league level.. which is being impeded by extending Happ and Hoerner.
Wrigley Field has nothing to do with the quality at bats and clutch hitting the Cubs failed to accomplish! Learn so small ball! Electronic strike zone needs implemented as well!
I've seen people say this quite a bit and the thing is the Cubs were ranked 20th in homeruns. They aren't a team that was ever relying on homeruns to win games. They were in the bottom third of the league at hitting with RISP. Granted if they were better at one or both of those things they would have won more games.
I actually agree, watch the playoff teams, they are winning with small ball. And yes, the Cubs are not a great homerun hitting team but it doesn't stop Happ, Hoerner and Swanson from trying to swing out of their jockstraps at the plate. IMO this leads to too many inning ending strikeouts and routine fly outs. We have seen this movie before with Baez and Contreras. I would love to see these guys get back to hitting line drives.
In fairness to Jed, he did say having a 5+ WAR player for next year could be via an “external” option as well as possibly finding it internally. I’m not disagreeing with you guys that the approach has been too small market and that we don’t seem to currently have that guy in-house.
Jed: How do we put every guy in position to do that? How do we push these guys to have a 6 win position? JED next week: For the 2025 season, I will be signing motivational speaker, Matt Foley!
I keep hearing the word "outperform projections" from Jed. Jed its been 2 years of the same team outside shota and busch and rise of PCA. But what did it still result to all in the end? missed playoffs. Its not enough Jed! Jed has a hard time excepting the fact if team shows you who they are believe them. Jed its been 2 seasons of this.
@melvynwindmon1927 Busch hit .248 and Crow Armstrong hit .237 If you call that a rise your standards aren't very high . Those stats are barely average but that's what Cubs fans have come to accept . Instead of setting their sights on a World Series winner the Cubs are striving to just make the playoffs and be happy with that . Always just settling just like their selection of players , never going for the best . JUST SETTLING !
Realistically Hoyer just echoed what he said last season he just said it differently. I got the feeling last year that we'd be relying on players to overperform if they were going to make the playoffs. Now fast forward to today and Hoyer has said exactly that. Relying on overperformance is not a sound strategy and you'd think someone that's the president of baseball operations of an MLB team would know that.
The Cubs organization knows exactly what they are doing! They string the fans along with future promises of team on the rise, that keeps the hopium flowing through the fandom that doesn’t exactly have their eyes open to what is happening, all of which you two express so well. Cubs fans loyalty is our downfall!
We literally had 83 wins, we're 6 win from playoff berth. We should spend some money and get tanner scott and seranthony Dominguez. We are a big market team!
Anyone else catch the game where Boog talked about Jeds sons’ favorite player is Christopher Morel and he wanted a Rays jersey of him for his birthday. And he got one!
Hoyer is full of shit!! Hes still stubborn and he knows damn well he's fully responsible and wont man up and take the initiative to do what it takes to fix the cubs problems once and for all!!
I love that Jed has repeatedly stated that it's too risky to invest in stars because you never know what you'll get. Yet on the other hand, he risks his entire organization with hoping good players combine to play great. That's not more risky?
I don't take much into account for press conferences because there are things that both the front office and fans obviously know but the front office isn't allowed to say it out loud because its not professional for them to say it out loud.
I read something Ernie Banks said if the other reams dont play as well and if play better we have a chance to win this Division all most sounds like Jed was saying !!!
My worry is that Ricketts was a trust fund baby and never had to create anything or run anything in his life. It was all set up for him. If that assumption is even close to being accurate, the Cubs need help at the very top. The Cubs are anything but a finely tuned machine on autopilot. In sales, the only success metric is closing the deal. In baseball, the only metric that matters is winning. The rest of the metrics are excuses. Maybe the last two things in life that are binary---> Win deal/lose deal. Win game/lose game. The rest are excuses.
There's no way in the world Bellinger opts out. No one is paying him more than the Cubs are the next two years. Unless he values playing in the World Series more than contract dollars, because the Cubs are going to trot out the same team next year and hope for over performance.
We have an owner thats fine with mediocrity. This is what happens. Waiting for internal overachievement is not a condusive way to building the so called "sustained success" we allegedly long for. Our team is worth close to five times more than when he bought it. If you dont have the cash to be a big market team sell part of the team and get the cash. And dont give me the revenue bullshit. We have a top 5 attendence year after year 2.8m-3m fans every year, our own network. This is just like you said this is troubling and immensely disappointing!!
As a brewer fan you guys should be embarrassed you guys keep losing to this pathetic franchise. How the hell can’t you guys win a division with a 100 mil more in salary cap. Do better so I don’t have to watch the brewers choke year after year
You honestly can't really HOPE for out performing things in baseball. It's baseball for a reason. There are so many damn games things MOST of the time avg out. MAYBE if you have the same dudes run out there for 10 years (don't age etc. pretend they stuck in time) you sneak a 89 win season out. STOP this small market shit Jed, there's a fucking sports book attached to Wrigley.
Very disappointing last two years but, I can remember when they were expected to lose. In the last 10 seasons, we have 8 seasons over .500 with 5 seasons ending with playoffs. Since the '45 world series, this team has finished above .500 only 27 times.
How disappointing. Let’s not give the folks at home hope for a winning season. They might expect too much like going to the World Series just like 2016. Tom Ricketts didn’t expect the Cubs to go the distance. WTF???!!!! Why buy a sports team if you have no interest or just luke warm interest in winning!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same old Same old. Jed's analytics department was DEAD WRONG AGAIN, but rather than take responsibility... now it was David Ross' coaches that were the problem. Embarrassing. For the love of Harry -- FIRE JED HOYER!
How is Hoyer responsible when the product doesn't produce constantly. How many 240 20 80 guys do we need? How about Cody get back to his ped days and stop looking scrawny af
Move on from hoyer! He hasnt put a playoff team on the field and thats facts. Finished same as last season and you let ross go for counsell and year 1 no playoffs. Build the team with specific areas that are weak and need improvements and than we will see
hoyer did not resign in shame as he would have done if he was a man of honor. The team must remove this pitiful man, who destroyed our team chemistry and caused us to lose respect across the league in the process. He demoralized our guys and now no real talent will want to sign for a known backstabber. With a true #1 starter and a solid 1st baseman, the much improved roster did not win even 1 game more than last years team as it quickly approached the end of the rebuild. The rebuild is now back in limbo. David Ross would be preparing our team for a playoff run today but the void of leadership created by hoyer caused every single returning player to regress. Baseball is a game of honor and respect and because of the presence of hoyer we have none. Whoever ends up with David Ross as their manager will fare better over the next decade than the team jed hoyer destroyed.
I think Jed is going to give the current team 3 months next year. If they tank early, play bad for one month, then real big player changes will follow. Young players come up.
A lot of young players should’ve come up this year… A lot… It didn’t happen. I love PCA coming up, but there’s no reason why they could’ve brought other guys up. Alcantara came up way too late.
@@TomMurray-pd5jj, they should have brought up one more player who they project to be part of the core of the next great team (joining Busch and Crow-Armstrong) no later than the start of August and taken a good look at him. I'm guessing it should have been Cassie. They wasted the opportunity.
Jed has done a good job building this team. But if the coaches and players did not perform to their level and plus injuries, and developing young talent. It is not his fault that Cubs did not make playoffs. PCA played under .200 for 4 months but no one blame they stick with him and he finally came through in last two months, that is what you pay (having bad records in those months) to develop a player. Morel did not work and got traded, great decision. But one always can argue too late! If you trade Morel in June, so many people will not be happy ! Common, Jed made almost every decision right ( Neris is not terrible but not good) . They did pay Cody to be a 5 war player. Don’t say Jed was not trying!
Who is Jim??? This whole mess is on Jed. Bad roster construction. Not bad weather. Nobody hit w/RISP. Nobody hit for 2 months. Average players don't often outperform expectations. Period. This is an average to below avg offense with good pitching. All on Jed.
@@Georgeglinos-bh8wy it depends on how your expectation is. If your expectation is to win in 22,23,24, then yes this roster is not going to win. But if your expectation is to build a roster can compete for championship every year for 10 years, this is a good starting couple of years. Good luck if you can find someone can construct a roster that won’t be able to outbid Yankees, Dodgers, Mets and don’t go to total rebuild. You stuck with this old Cubs 108 years without champion. It is on the fans as much as on the owner and org. I won’t be that kind of fans, I am realistic and won’t over pay for the tickets, won’t buy jerseys that I can’t afford. Anything I buy I know that’s my spare money, to support the team. That’s how I see a fan should be, I don’t get joy from only winning, I watch they play and get joy. I don’t put unrealistic expectations and I use my brain not my heart to judge the organization. They have a bright future and I can see it, even though they might not win next year. No one can guarantee.
You might as well go ahead find a new team. The fans have to take a stand but unfortunately the Ricketts know fans going to show up regradless. every year winter meeting after winter meeting the cubs are never in on huge names they always get tier 2 and 3 guys thats worth 100 or 140 middle market team
@@knleonhartTrue enough. Moises wasn't a homegrown Expo, but Montréal surely did serve as a great player development center for the rest of the league.
I like Jed and when I look at where the team is now compared to 2019 I think he’s done a great job. Good farm along with a well rounded team and rotation. That said I had many problems with this presser. Jed talks on and on about how Cody was a star in 2023 and how he carried us. Does he forget that we won the same amount of games that year?? I like Bellinger and would be fine if he stayed on this team but I don’t think he can be a consistent star. I also see no chance the cubs get a star this offseason. I think the solution will have to be more with counsel. This team can win 90 games. We just need to play more like the Brewers. They don’t have a star. Contreas is great and so is Adames but they aren’t much better then Seiya. We just need to hit in the clutch.
Why just set your goal at 90 wins ? Why not aspire to be Champions and not be satisfied with anything less . Reaching a number means nothing without a trophy !
I forgot to mention this on the podcast: At no point during the press conference did Jed Hoyer speak about trying to win a CHAMPIONSHIP. And that also upset me. -Sam
He talked in such a way it almost made me think that his job is not secure. Like there's a chance within the next month he could be fired.
Man , I hope so !@@naturallawman2965
Hoyer is just a big phoney . I wouldn't believe a word he says . This guy is an expert at passing the buck and lying to the fans , and he's been lying to us since Theo left . And as far as Alzolay goes , Hoyer was a fool to go into the season satisfied with anointing a headcase with questionable talent as the closer rather than fixing the position with a proven successful closer . And is Paredes a guy you want to see as your future at 3rd? He might as well had just kept Candelario , neither one is a star and that's what you need to have at the hot corner ideally . But again Hoyer settles , he's the champion dumpster diver of MLB execs . It's so Cubs , so Ricketts .
So is Hoyer just a patsy for the owner,the owner just wants a 500 team figuring the fans like the old days will still show up,first talk to Oakland,get Miller,lock down the closer problems,trade our 2nd baseman.could Busch play 2nd,then you can get first baseman they want,Toronto or Mets,but probably do nothing,an if stadium is a problem,change it a bit,I know the vines are kinda cool, but people would forget quick,an he talks like he's saying something,but says nothing
Exactly the 3rd largest city in America, Jed not even dreaming of World Series...amazing.
Hope is not a strategy.
And it appears to be the only one we have. Everyone (position players, I mean) appears to have underperformed. You expect Cody, Nico, and Dansby to have been better. You expect PCA, who was brilliant in flashes, to continue to improve. Likewise, Michael Busch. You add Caleb Kilian to the rotation and hope that he's as good as he appears to be...
But what is the path forward for the Cubs most hotly anticipated prospects? Where is there an opening for Matt Shaw -- how do you work him into the lineup?
I like Cody's bat-to-ball skills, but why does Nico appear to have taken a step backward? I can't help thinking this team is better than it played, but even at their best, they're not currently better than the Dodgers and Padres, so where do you go from here? And whatever you do is gonna require some cutting-edge coaching.
Good point
Technically it is. It's just a really bad one
Agree with Sam hoping that several players over perform is NOT a plan.
You know what I just recently started getting into you guy’s content… You guys do great work! Keep it up.
I didn’t think I was going to enjoy a conversation about how Jed doesn’t seem to care at all… Magically I did. Thanks guys! You’ve been a bright spot on this relative turd of a season.
Low point or the beginning of the disaster was when they lost to San Diego after being ahead by 8 runs.
Does anyone really expect Jed to do anything good if Cody opts out. Doubt that
This presser reminded me of gulp, the Bears. Our guys, good culture.... JUST WIN, IT'S A SPORT. YOU NEED TO WIN
Sam looks like how we all feel. Thank you.
We put all the blame on Jed but Ricketts needs to take half of it also. Tom needs to step up and tell Jed go get Soto, go get Burnes and let’s win this thing.
Bro i been this before season started lol the Ricketts family handicap whoever GM and president is they Don't want compete spend what it takes to get the big names and thats been the history of the cubs
At no point during the press conference did he sound like he was anxious that 2025 is the last year on his contract
They didn’t under perform . They were perfected to win 83 games . And that’s exactly what they won
Preach it, Sam! Sam taking us to church!!!
All of the good moments would involve Shota, especially the combined no-hitter!
Can't wait for Jed to be gone. He's holding the team back
You can get rid of jed that won't change the fact that Ricketts family handicaps anybody you bring in.
how? The results per $ spent hasn’t been there. If someone keeps wasting millions I provide, I’d tighten spending more than Ricketts has. The fact is that the Cubs spent over the threshold for 83 wins. Ricketts outspent the Brewers and the Cardinals. What Hoyer did was overspend on guys like Swanson and Bellinger in what appears to have been moves to satisfy fanatics demanding he sign them. Fanatics wet themselves until he extended Ian Happ and Hoerner. Now he’s back in the same financial corner Theo left him in… without anything to show for it. To me the model should be to have a farm system that produces 2-3 contributors every year and fill in via trade or free agency with a legitimate run producer, closer, etc.
Hoyer has done some good things such as rebuilding the farm system, signing Shota, Taillon plus trading for Michael Busch. The farm system needs to start producing on the major league level.. which is being impeded by extending Happ and Hoerner.
Wrigley Field has nothing to do with the quality at bats and clutch hitting the Cubs failed to accomplish! Learn so small ball! Electronic strike zone needs implemented as well!
I've seen people say this quite a bit and the thing is the Cubs were ranked 20th in homeruns. They aren't a team that was ever relying on homeruns to win games. They were in the bottom third of the league at hitting with RISP.
Granted if they were better at one or both of those things they would have won more games.
I actually agree, watch the playoff teams, they are winning with small ball. And yes, the Cubs are not a great homerun hitting team but it doesn't stop Happ, Hoerner and Swanson from trying to swing out of their jockstraps at the plate. IMO this leads to too many inning ending strikeouts and routine fly outs. We have seen this movie before with Baez and Contreras. I would love to see these guys get back to hitting line drives.
In fairness to Jed, he did say having a 5+ WAR player for next year could be via an “external” option as well as possibly finding it internally. I’m not disagreeing with you guys that the approach has been too small market and that we don’t seem to currently have that guy in-house.
Well the Dodgers deferred so much of their contracts too. As for how they got away with this, you got me.
Jed: How do we put every guy in position to do that? How do we push these guys to have a 6 win position? JED next week: For the 2025 season, I will be signing motivational speaker, Matt Foley!
I keep hearing the word "outperform projections" from Jed. Jed its been 2 years of the same team outside shota and busch and rise of PCA. But what did it still result to all in the end? missed playoffs. Its not enough Jed! Jed has a hard time excepting the fact if team shows you who they are believe them. Jed its been 2 seasons of this.
@melvynwindmon1927 Busch hit .248 and Crow Armstrong hit .237 If you call that a rise your standards aren't very high . Those stats are barely average but that's what Cubs fans have come to accept . Instead of setting their sights on a World Series winner the Cubs are striving to just make the playoffs and be happy with that . Always just settling just like their selection of players , never going for the best . JUST SETTLING !
Realistically Hoyer just echoed what he said last season he just said it differently. I got the feeling last year that we'd be relying on players to overperform if they were going to make the playoffs. Now fast forward to today and Hoyer has said exactly that. Relying on overperformance is not a sound strategy and you'd think someone that's the president of baseball operations of an MLB team would know that.
I’d like to have a first baseman that hits 30 and 100, not someone you sit against lefties. If Busch is so good, let’s see him play against everybody.
The Cubs organization knows exactly what they are doing! They string the fans along with future promises of team on the rise, that keeps the hopium flowing through the fandom that doesn’t exactly have their eyes open to what is happening, all of which you two express so well. Cubs fans loyalty is our downfall!
We literally had 83 wins, we're 6 win from playoff berth. We should spend some money and get tanner scott and seranthony Dominguez. We are a big market team!
Anyone else catch the game where Boog talked about Jeds sons’ favorite player is Christopher Morel and he wanted a Rays jersey of him for his birthday. And he got one!
Hoyer is full of shit!! Hes still stubborn and he knows damn well he's fully responsible and wont man up and take the initiative to do what it takes to fix the cubs problems once and for all!!
I love that Jed has repeatedly stated that it's too risky to invest in stars because you never know what you'll get. Yet on the other hand, he risks his entire organization with hoping good players combine to play great. That's not more risky?
I don't take much into account for press conferences because there are things that both the front office and fans obviously know but the front office isn't allowed to say it out loud because its not professional for them to say it out loud.
I read something Ernie Banks said if the other reams dont play as well and if play better we have a chance to win this Division all most sounds like Jed was saying !!!
My worry is that Ricketts was a trust fund baby and never had to create anything or run anything in his life. It was all set up for him. If that assumption is even close to being accurate, the Cubs need help at the very top. The Cubs are anything but a finely tuned machine on autopilot. In sales, the only success metric is closing the deal. In baseball, the only metric that matters is winning. The rest of the metrics are excuses. Maybe the last two things in life that are binary---> Win deal/lose deal. Win game/lose game. The rest are excuses.
By contrast, Jerry Reinsdorf is a self made man. Look at the state of the Sox
Ricketts birth has nothing to do with anything
Love this show
Thank you for listening!!
Counsell needs to recruit Burnes. Hoyer wants Bellinger to leave was critical of him. Indirectly criticized him.
Stay on management!
There's no way in the world Bellinger opts out. No one is paying him more than the Cubs are the next two years. Unless he values playing in the World Series more than contract dollars, because the Cubs are going to trot out the same team next year and hope for over performance.
In Tuesday's show, please include a discussion of Hoyer's ridiculous comments, excuses about the wind at Wrigley.
Meant Wed show
Do we know he doesn't get an extension if no 2025 playoffs ?? Because I have no faith in Ricketts for pulling that trigger
We are a Corbin Burnes away from a WS
Yes with bullpen arms
His prime is over
We have an owner thats fine with mediocrity. This is what happens. Waiting for internal overachievement is not a condusive way to building the so called "sustained success" we allegedly long for. Our team is worth close to five times more than when he bought it. If you dont have the cash to be a big market team sell part of the team and get the cash. And dont give me the revenue bullshit. We have a top 5 attendence year after year 2.8m-3m fans every year, our own network. This is just like you said this is troubling and immensely disappointing!!
Talking lots about “next year”. What about THIS year? Love how Jed was all smiles, as if all went well. Fake leadership with a spin master @ the top
Well , I’m not going to hold my breath .
It will be the same old story for the fans and the team .
Jed put the Cubs in this position by overspending on a couple of players and we all know who they are.
All the teams you mention in top 7, are all ready to win! NOT CUBS in their 3rd year of TOTAL rebuild!!!
He really needs until after Cody's decision to decide how to move forward
We are light years away from the astros and philles ect.. our goal is 5o win the world series every single season my goodness
As a brewer fan you guys should be embarrassed you guys keep losing to this pathetic franchise. How the hell can’t you guys win a division with a 100 mil more in salary cap. Do better so I don’t have to watch the brewers choke year after year
You know there is a Locked On Brewers, right?
You honestly can't really HOPE for out performing things in baseball. It's baseball for a reason. There are so many damn games things MOST of the time avg out. MAYBE if you have the same dudes run out there for 10 years (don't age etc. pretend they stuck in time) you sneak a 89 win season out. STOP this small market shit Jed, there's a fucking sports book attached to Wrigley.
That was an embarrassing press conference. Both from Jed, and the reporters.
Hoyer has to get out of here
Very disappointing last two years but, I can remember when they were expected to lose. In the last 10 seasons, we have 8 seasons over .500 with 5 seasons ending with playoffs. Since the '45 world series, this team has finished above .500 only 27 times.
Expectations have changed. That's a *good* thing.
How disappointing. Let’s not give the folks at home hope for a winning season. They might expect too much like going to the World Series just like 2016. Tom Ricketts didn’t expect the Cubs to go the distance. WTF???!!!!
Why buy a sports team if you have no interest or just luke warm interest in winning!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has not an executive with a WAR over 2 either lol
The phillies dont have a 5 war player for reference.
Bryce Harper is a superstar despite what his WAR says
Now this is a great episode.
No holds bar.
Tell it like it is.
Respect 🫡
Thank you
Same old Same old. Jed's analytics department was DEAD WRONG AGAIN, but rather than take responsibility... now it was David Ross' coaches that were the problem. Embarrassing. For the love of Harry -- FIRE JED HOYER!
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One final remark on the Cubs this past season ……..
They’re Shitty !!!!!!!!!!! 😖😖😖😖
There’s always NEXT YEAR
pls Juan soto lol
How is Hoyer responsible when the product doesn't produce constantly. How many 240 20 80 guys do we need? How about Cody get back to his ped days and stop looking scrawny af
Move on from hoyer! He hasnt put a playoff team on the field and thats facts. Finished same as last season and you let ross go for counsell and year 1 no playoffs. Build the team with specific areas that are weak and need improvements and than we will see
dilated with Sam's commentary.
Bs just get some black and brown players, if I'm lying look at every single team in the Playoffs
They're from the Caribbean (Dominican rep, Cuba, curacao) not American blacks. Big difference there bub
hoyer did not resign in shame as he would have done if he was a man of honor. The team must remove this pitiful man, who destroyed our team chemistry and caused us to lose respect across the league in the process. He demoralized our guys and now no real talent will want to sign for a known backstabber. With a true #1 starter and a solid 1st baseman, the much improved roster did not win even 1 game more than last years team as it quickly approached the end of the rebuild. The rebuild is now back in limbo. David Ross would be preparing our team for a playoff run today but the void of leadership created by hoyer caused every single returning player to regress. Baseball is a game of honor and respect and because of the presence of hoyer we have none. Whoever ends up with David Ross as their manager will fare better over the next decade than the team jed hoyer destroyed.
I think Jed is going to give the current team 3 months next year. If they tank early, play bad for one month, then real big player changes will follow. Young players come up.
A lot of young players should’ve come up this year… A lot… It didn’t happen. I love PCA coming up, but there’s no reason why they could’ve brought other guys up. Alcantara came up way too late.
Jed did not get fired!!! Speaks volumes about ricketts stewardship of the Cubs.
Keep Wrigley packed, fans, ricketts loves your money
As a season ticket holder I will not be renewing as long as Jed’s there. He needs to be fired
@@daveshockley8791 Let’s make Wrigley a ghost town and bankrupt marquee, that is the only way to get rid of current ownership!
@@TomMurray-pd5jj, they should have brought up one more player who they project to be part of the core of the next great team (joining Busch and Crow-Armstrong) no later than the start of August and taken a good look at him. I'm guessing it should have been Cassie. They wasted the opportunity.
Jed has done a good job building this team. But if the coaches and players did not perform to their level and plus injuries, and developing young talent. It is not his fault that Cubs did not make playoffs. PCA played under .200 for 4 months but no one blame they stick with him and he finally came through in last two months, that is what you pay (having bad records in those months) to develop a player. Morel did not work and got traded, great decision. But one always can argue too late! If you trade Morel in June, so many people will not be happy ! Common, Jed made almost every decision right ( Neris is not terrible but not good) . They did pay Cody to be a 5 war player. Don’t say Jed was not trying!
Who is Jim??? This whole mess is on Jed. Bad roster construction. Not bad weather. Nobody hit w/RISP. Nobody hit for 2 months. Average players don't often outperform expectations. Period. This is an average to below avg offense with good pitching. All on Jed.
@@Georgeglinos-bh8wy it depends on how your expectation is. If your expectation is to win in 22,23,24, then yes this roster is not going to win. But if your expectation is to build a roster can compete for championship every year for 10 years, this is a good starting couple of years. Good luck if you can find someone can construct a roster that won’t be able to outbid Yankees, Dodgers, Mets and don’t go to total rebuild. You stuck with this old Cubs 108 years without champion. It is on the fans as much as on the owner and org. I won’t be that kind of fans, I am realistic and won’t over pay for the tickets, won’t buy jerseys that I can’t afford. Anything I buy I know that’s my spare money, to support the team. That’s how I see a fan should be, I don’t get joy from only winning, I watch they play and get joy. I don’t put unrealistic expectations and I use my brain not my heart to judge the organization. They have a bright future and I can see it, even though they might not win next year. No one can guarantee.
I think it is unfair to Jed that you want him to make every decision right.
The Cubs have one more year to make the playoffs before I either quit baseball or find a new team. Cubs fan since 1998 by the way.
I'll give Cubs fans credit where due - they are the most patient fans on God's green Earth.
You might as well go ahead find a new team. The fans have to take a stand but unfortunately the Ricketts know fans going to show up regradless. every year winter meeting after winter meeting the cubs are never in on huge names they always get tier 2 and 3 guys thats worth 100 or 140 middle market team
@@thomasjoseph3488 thanks Expos fan, and thanks for bringing up Moises Alou, who almost helped us break the curse in 2003
@@knleonhartTrue enough. Moises wasn't a homegrown Expo, but Montréal surely did serve as a great player development center for the rest of the league.
@@liveanddieinchicagoliveand7074 yeah, Ricketts is largely the problem in my book. I also don’t like what he stands for as a human being.
All Jed has to say is ... "I grew up in a middle class family"
If Jed doesn’t resign, Tommy boy Ricketts should can him. If he doesn’t have the balls, sell the team.
I like Jed and when I look at where the team is now compared to 2019 I think he’s done a great job. Good farm along with a well rounded team and rotation. That said I had many problems with this presser. Jed talks on and on about how Cody was a star in 2023 and how he carried us. Does he forget that we won the same amount of games that year?? I like Bellinger and would be fine if he stayed on this team but I don’t think he can be a consistent star. I also see no chance the cubs get a star this offseason. I think the solution will have to be more with counsel. This team can win 90 games. We just need to play more like the Brewers. They don’t have a star. Contreas is great and so is Adames but they aren’t much better then Seiya. We just need to hit in the clutch.
Why just set your goal at 90 wins ? Why not aspire to be Champions and not be satisfied with anything less . Reaching a number means nothing without a trophy !
Jed reminds me of Kamala. Word Salad! All 100% world salad which does not say anything!
can we fire boog
Boog is signed thru 2026