Believe it or not, Jed Hoyer has been just as busy as almost every other baseball executive this winter. The difference between him and his peers is that Hoyer has been mostly subtracting pieces from the roster he inherited from Theo Epstein. The Cubs have more lineup holes now than it did when the Marlins blanked them in the Wild Card round of the playoffs and the pickings are getting slim as free agents continue to sign elsewhere.
With that in mind, consider Hoyer lucky that he was able to convince Shelby Miller to sign a non-guaranteed deal with the Cubs.