Given the lack of player movement this winter, most of the Cubs’ activity has come in the coaching staff and front office. Most notably, they replaced both their hitting and pitching coaches for the second time in as many seasons. Chili Davis’s highly-publicized ouster was followed by reports that he had struggled to relate to players, something Davis himself openly admitted.
Theo Epstein addressed issues with the team’s hitting approach during his postmortem press conference, indicating that some changes were likely coming.
“[T]he bottom line is we stopped walking and stopped hitting the ball out of the ballpark, especially in the second half,” Epstein said.