The Cubs may or may not be on the periphery of some big news, but they remain baseball’s biggest talking point outside Los Angeles. With that in mind, I thought I’d do a Saturday Rundown before pivoting to the NFL for Bears Insider. This stretch of cold weather also leaves me more attuned to the hot stove, both literally and figuratively. Like everyone else, I’m still trying to figure out if Jed Hoyer has a direction and if he’s decided to head that way.
The big news of the week has been, in order of importance, Alex Bregman, Ryan Pressly, and David Robertson.