We don’t usually hear too much from Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein. He did take quite a few questions from fans at the Cubs Convention, but he rarely grants interviews.
So this long interview conducted by Jon Greenberg in The Athletic is worth reading. And no, they didn’t ask me to say this, but you really ought to subscribe to The Athletic if you don’t already — it’s not expensive and you can always find discount deals around, and the writing is excellent.
The interview touches on a lot of things, but I wanted to specifically highlight this response, which I think sums up very well where the Cubs are as we approach spring training 2019:
I think this is a definitional year in a lot of ways.