Jed Hoyer talks Cubs' struggles, Pete Crow-Armstrong's vulgar comment
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Jed Hoyer, the Cubs president of baseball operations, joining us now on Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. Jed, thanks for coming on with us today.
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uh we unfortunately our timing is not ideal when we're talking to you after two losses to the brewers and uh a setback with crosstown take losing two out of three that emotional game on sunday drew it out of everybody i think what is what is your mindset and your opinion of just what you saw from your team over those last two series so far yeah i know we haven't played very well for the last 10 games i think that's uh
undeniable. Um, I think it goes back before that, you know, we had to be struggled to hit in Texas. And then obviously, you know, Atlanta is a really good team. We played them on the road and, um, it didn't hit it all there, but, but one of the final game. And then, you know, you know, Sunday was, was a frustrating one. It felt like a game that, um, we just left a ton of guys on base early. It felt like a game that we could have spread out and we didn't. And obviously, um, lost a heartbreaker, and they're playing really well right now. The White Sox have played well for a while, so that was a tough emotional series, and then obviously we haven't played well, and the Brewers have played great the last two days.
So it's been a struggle the last 10 days, and I just think that's the nature of a baseball season. We kind of muddled through the first five series of the year, didn't play great, and then We won 20 out of 23, and then obviously we struggled for 10 days. So we sort of had almost, I feel like, three different segments of the season, and I think the totality of things, we're in a good position, but obviously we're not playing well right now, and we need to turn it around, which there's no reason to think we won't.
Jed, I know you're not going to have a knee-jerk reaction to... the ups and downs but you guys have had some severe swings when it comes to the ups and then also now with the down the two 10 game winning streaks two and eight as you mentioned uh in the last 10 games i'm curious because of the pitching element of this and trying to piecemeal it together because that's what it feels like anyway with kate horton being gone with uh boyd missing time i'm curious as to if you have any regrets at all about guys who have been available whether it's lucas giolito or other guys that you may have checked in on and And if you regret not being more aggressive in some of the free agents that were out there.
Yeah, no, we've had, we've had some injuries and I think that, um, we've had to, I used that piece of together. I think, you know, given that we've, we've done a pretty good job of that. And I think in a lot of ways, like a Boyd injury, um, you know, the, the small several silver lining of that is, you know, we had to put Brown in the bullpen early in the year because of our relief injuries and, um,
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