Cubs Connected to Josh Hader Via Circumstantial Logic

The Cubs need to improve the bullpen in a big way this winter after watching how things broke down during their September swoon. Jed Hoyer could even be open to spending a little more money on that unit than usual, stretching for multiyear deals to give Craig Counsell a relief corps to rival the ones he managed with the Brewers. Put it all together and you could make a case for the pursuit of the market’s top closer.

“Which manager in Major League Baseball knows how to get the best out of Josh Hader?” Jon Morosi asked rhetorically on MLB Network. “Hmm, the guy who now manages just down the road from Milwaukee, where he was so successful for so many years, in Craig Counsell. Yes, they’ve got…