Hoyer took over for Kevin Towers who was GM from 1995-2009. He is best remembered for trading away Adrian Gonzalez for a young kid named Anthony Rizzo, whom he would later bring to the Cubs in 2012.
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Moving to Chicago to be the GM was done as Theo Epstein became the Cubs Direct of Baseball Operations following turning around the Boston Red Sox and bringing home two World Series to a franchise that hadn’t won any since 1918. Theo turned his focus to the team that hadn’t a World Series for longer than that: the Chicago Cubs and their 1908 World Championship.