Carter Hawkins

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Interviews of the Week on 104.3 The Score: June 29-July 3 · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

So glad we have him.

Carter Hawkins, Cubs general manager, joining us here live from Gallagher Way here on Rahimi Harris and Grody.

You mentioned the draft is coming up, and

We've been all trying to figure out what are all these teams going to do as things kind of change.

NIL money is involved.

A lot of things are different now.

I am curious about the track record that you guys have, though.

Specifically, when you talk about post the fifth round, the draft spending changes and you guys have spent very little on pitchers.

Is that a strategic choice year over year, or is that something that you guys have just kind of been stuck with once you get to that point of the draft?

How do you guys see that as an organization?

Yeah, I mean, if you look at the cumulative amount of money we spend on pitchers, it's pretty average.

Now we haven't done as well with drafting pitchers as we have as drafting position players in the aggregate yet.

You know, there's still a lot of stories that have yet to be fully told, but that's definitely a focus for ours is how can we be better at selecting players

you know not just position players but also pitchers and how can we better developing those players as well it's really a team effort you know if you don't select well you develop well it doesn't matter if you don't develop well and you select well it doesn't matter you gotta have both of those things working together so that's been a big focus of ours and you know certainly an area we have room to improve um but in terms of a strategy uh you know our strategy is really just try to get the most wins out of the draft and

Oftentimes that ends up being a position player.

Oftentimes that ends up being a pitcher.

But we're not going in with this one thing that we're looking for because when you start doing that, you start to leak wins.

And that's okay to make that decision once, but if you make that decision 100 times, now you've leaked 100 wins or less than that.

So it is a case-by-case scenario then?

100%.

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