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Jed Hoyer didn’t want to have this much time for offseason planning. The Cubs president of baseball operations had hoped his focus in October would be on a postseason run.
“But certainly we’ll get right to work,” he said in his end-of-season new conference Tuesday.
The Cubs just barely missed the playoffs, despite the expanded format, with a 83-79 record after a September collapse.
“We were an above average offensive team,” Hoyer said, pointing to an offense that finished the year ninth in offensive WAR (48.