Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 6, 2022
Cubs Opening Day: Evaluating offseason moves, their implications for 2022
Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer stands with minor league hitting coordinator Dustin Kelly and manager David Ross while watching live batting practice at the Cubs Spring Training facility in Mesa, AZ.MESA, Ariz. – Building a roster is never simple. But this offseason was more complicated than most.
“I think a lot of the things we set out to accomplish, we did,” Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said. “We want to field a competitive team. We also very much have one eye on the future, as we’ve shown. Trying to thread that needle is something that we’re aware of, and I think we did that. I think it’s going to be hard to evaluate anything for a while.”