Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer is going to get the question plenty in the coming months and years: Is this a rebuild?
Fans and media members already know the answer.
“If you want to label it that, that’s your job,” Hoyer said Saturday, before the Cubs beat the White Sox 5-1 to open a two-game series at Guaranteed Rate Park. “My job is to tell you what our plan is.”
He’s right, that is our jobs as journalists, analysts or pundits.
It is, by definition, a rebuild. The Cubs tore down their last championship team – leaving only Willson Contreras, Kyle Hendricks and Jason Heyward on the roster this year – and are building anew.