CHICAGO -- If you’re looking for that one moment when the Cubs decided they needed more from their offense, you won’t find it.
It was a culmination of many moments -- many frustrating ones -- over the past couple of years, during both the regular season and playoffs. The Cubs knew they could hit home runs, but they needed to generate runs in different ways.
“It was based on a lot of conversations over the course of the year,” general manager Jed Hoyer said Thursday. “We saw them, in some ways, developing exceptionally well, but we saw the place we could grow as an offense was to be able to hit situationally, to drive in runs with men on base.