Baseball might be fresh again, but the topics addressed by the Cubs’ leadership triumvirate of Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer, and David Ross during a joint press conference Tuesday afternoon were stale as Ryan Dempster’s Harry Caray impersonation. Not that you’d expect anything else from an offseason in which the only players the organization can afford to sign are the retired kind as they stock the Marquee Network lineup with Cubs alums at a staggering pace. That includes Mark Grace, who was just added as an analyst.
When it comes to slump-busters for the active roster, however, the front office is going to have to rely upon a core group that remains largely unchanged from the past few seasons.