Chicago sports teams are famous for running it back, so to speak, but Jed Hoyer sounds like he’s eager to break from tradition. The Cubs’ president of baseball operations is a lot of things, but I never would have considered him disruptive. His current attitude is refreshing nonetheless because it does sound like he intends to be quite busy this winter.
That doesn’t mean Hoyer is going to fire David Ross or disassemble and rebuild his roster. He does, however, realize that the team that stayed in the race for 161 of 162 games isn’t quite good enough to wholly return in its current iteration.