“The best way I can describe it is there are parallel fronts — the job of building the scouting and player development foundation that is going to serve well for the long haul and treating every opportunity to win as sacred.”
When Theo Epstein was introduced as the Cubs’ president of baseball operations in 2011, he emphasized that the Cubs would build themselves into a juggernaut both at the major league level and in the minor leagues, scouting and developing a stream of talent that would populate the major league roster and allow them to add talent via trades in the years to come.