Pitchers and catchers reporting Tuesday involved the beginning of the season presser with Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein, GM Jed Hoyer and manager Joe Maddon. This year’s presser was not as “fun” or “happy” as it has been in years past. Between the Addison Russell situation, the Joe Ricketts emails and the lack of big moves, the media was ready to fire all sorts of questions.
All those topics were addressed in detail by Epstein and Maddon before a lot of baseball talk. Epstein was eventually asked about the free agent market and hinted that they might be going after one more player.