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SAN ANTONIO – It’s obvious that Wrigley Field played a role in suppressing the Cubs’ offense, and much of the discussion about the conditions this year have hinged on that aspect. But it goes both ways, and president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer isn’t shying away from that fact.
“Certainly,you can’t look at the Wrigley factor as on only one side,” he said Tuesday at the GM meetings. “It affects everybody.”
That isn’t to say Cubs starting pitchers don’t deserve credit for putting up the second-best ERA in the National League (3.