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Despite the number of key Cubs players who will be in walk years in 2026, the team’s situation isn’t comparable to 2021 — when the Cubs couldn’t come to terms with any of their core players facing free agency at the end of the year and then sold off at the trade deadline.
Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer made clear at MLB’s general managers meetings in Las Vegas this week that the team will be “active” this offseason.
And even if the Cubs’ plans to build off this year’s playoff appearance go awry, they aren’t in danger of undergoing the kind of full-scale rebuild that they initiated four and a half years ago.