This isn’t anything you haven’t already assumed or heard before, so let’s just address it quickly for the sake of posterity. Jed Hoyer and most of the rest of his fellow baseball executives are gathered at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, which is kind of ironic given the latest scandal involving fixed pitches, to fan the flames of the hot stove. The Cubs’ baseball boss addressed some basic strategic targets of the offseason in his typical general sense.
“We’re gonna have an active offseason,” Hoyer told reporters. “Take that for what it’s worth. I think the largest focus will be on pitching; I think that’s obvious looking at our depth chart.