Chicago Cubs GM Jed Hoyer was just on with David Kaplan and David Haugh on 87.7 The Game, discussing a number of interesting things. As soon as there’s full audio available, I’ll share it here. (UPDATE: Here it is.)
For now, I jotted down some paraphrased notes on the high points of Hoyer’s comments (the “us” and “we” and “I” references are Hoyer’s, unless indicated otherwise):
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