Jed Hoyer is keeping all his options open when it comes to adding arms this winter.
I'm not going to do it. I refuse to let myself hope again. The Chicago Cubs have proven time and time again that they're unwilling to step into the ring with the premier franchises in Major League Baseball and do what it takes (get a little uncomfortable) to push a free agent pursuit across the finish line.
We saw it with Shohei Ohtani a couple of years ago - and Jed Hoyer has proven he's a methodical executive who rarely, if ever, goes beyond what an internal evaluation says about a player.