Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer held his traditional end-of-season news conference Monday morning and covered a wide range of topics.
The only real news that he made was stating that Willson Contreras will definitely receive a qualifying offer from the Cubs and that the team “will be in touch with his representatives.” It is, of course, up to Contreras whether to accept that offer (and I think it’s 50/50), but for any of you who had thought the team wouldn’t make the QO, now we know they will.
And if you think the Cubs won’t spend money this offseason, Hoyer wouldn’t commit one way or the other about doing that in free agency, but he did say that if he went to Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts with a plan, he said Tom would give him his total support and: “If we get to a place where we ask for a significant amount of money, I have no doubt we’ll have his blessing and the resources will be there.