Nam Y. Huh/AP
MESA, Ariz. – With the Cubs’ first official full squad workout scheduled for Monday, talk around camp has been full of optimism. That’s almost always the case when a team is having to come to terms with the possibility that they won’t make any more major additions before Opening Day.
“We struggled in September and fell a game short with a team that I feel like probably should have been in the postseason,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said this week.