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Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts isn’t giving any public assurances about president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer’s future with the team after his contract expires.
“‘Lame duck’ is not what I would describe what Jed is doing right now,” Ricketts said last weekend in a conversation with the Sun-Times, drilling down on the wording of the question. “He’s working really hard. I think he’s had a really good offseason. You saw what happened last year: we got caught short on pitching depth, if nothing else.