There’s no need to relitigate the move and subsequent fallout, but I wanted to touch on this topic since Jed Hoyer said the quiet part out loud on David Kaplan’s REKAP podcast. Speaking to the host and former Cubs (current Reds) beat writer Gordon Wittenmyer, the Cubs’ baseball boss covered a number of topics from their remaining offseason plans to past regrets.
If you’ve read the headline, you know where this is going.
“The obvious one as I look back was non-tendering Schwarber,” Hoyer admitted. “We just didn’t have any money after Covid.