Cubs’ Front-Office Hierarchy Maybe Not as ‘Flat’ as They Make it Seem

To hear them talk about it, the Cubs front office represents the kind of baseball utopia you’d expect to find in an Aldous Huxley novel. Their shiny new hive overlooking Gallagher Way houses a collective of baseball intelligence in which interns and execs buzz around in kind, sharing their knowledge and impacting the direction of the team. It’s a “flat hierarchy,” as Jed Hoyer put it back in March.

“I’m sure we have some intern working for us that I’ll probably work for someday,” Hoyer said. “I think that’s the way it should be. You should always hire people that can take your job and this game is ever-evolving and I think it’s important to remember that.

“Our job is to bring in the best of…