Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts spent 10 minutes Saturday in a rare and amiable chat with a handful of reporters before a 5-2 loss to the Giants.
Except for the part about a second straight losing season that’s on pace for an even worse, 94-loss finish than last year?
Of course, major league baseball is a bottom-line, results-based business, so any process — no matter how brilliant — is only as good as how many games are won compared to the other teams. One writer persisted with another question about how the wins and losses will ultimately determine whether this new core of young players is good or not?
No matter how little creativity and ingenuity is actually involved in such models. No matter how lazy that method is from financial, intellectual and risk-reward perspectives. And if Hoyer wants to go big on, say, a free agent starting pitcher and maybe one of those big-name, big-money shortstops in free agency to turn things around right away in 2023?
So what about any lessons or mistakes along the way the organization might have learned in that process?
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