“Come to me now, and rest your head for just five minutes. Everything is done.” – Crosby, Still, and Nash, Our House
Jed Hoyer will not go down as the greatest GM in Cubs history, but he may be remembered as the organization’s most consistent. Hoyer, who operates on a foundation of intelligent spending and threading the needle, managed to do both at this year’s trade deadline. True to his word, the president of baseball operations navigated baseball’s overpriced flea market with 2025 in mind. Or did he?
The Cubs are analytically the same team they were last week.