Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer met with news media Tuesday morning, as he does every year when the season ends. He did express regret that this presser was being held today, as opposed to the team being in the postseason, and said, “We have to be better. We’ve got to get back to the postseason for the fans.”
Which is a great goal, of course, and what we all want. Hoyer acknowledged that there’s a “significant” gap between the Cubs and the Brewers, who finished 10 games ahead in the NL Central this year. He compared it to the gap the Cubs had behind the Cardinals when Theo Epstein and Hoyer came to the Cubs more than a decade ago.