Jed seems to think that was good enough
His end of season press conference was just the same old crap

Jed Hoyer sat down with the media on Wednesday to try to creatively not say anything that might tip his hand about all of the really important, necessary stuff that he has no plan to actually do this offseason. It's always fun.
Chicago baseball's version of Helen Thomas, Bruce Levine, always gets to ask the first question, and he predictably asked Jed if you can call a season a success if you don't win a championship.
Jed admitted he was disappointed, which is the right answer, full stop.
But...of course there's a but. He said he was "really proud of this team, they were really consistent." He's right. They were consistent. In the first half they consistently scored runs. In the second half they consistently didn't.
Jed talked about how thin the margins are that determine whether you win or lose in the postseason. He's right. It's almost like if you ignore your need for more starting pitching and another bat at the trade deadline, you're kind of screwed in the postseason.
In fact, our old friend Jon Greenberg asked Jed directly if he felt regret during the playoffs at not addressing the glaringly obvious needs that he left unattended.
And, we got a new version of the same old bullshit answer have gave us on July 31.
"The most glaring was starting pitching, but I haven't really thought about that much since August because I know what the market was."
Funny. I thought about it constantly since August, and it's not my fucking job to fix it.
"To acquire players that would have impacted the pennant race it would have cost us players that impacted our second half in a big way on the team."
Yeah. That's why you're supposed to actually build a system full of real prospects, not just act like you're building one. You continue to give an explanation about why you didn't trade for Mackenzie Gore, or Edward Cabrera, or Eugenio Suarez, or whoever, that reflects very poorly on the way you've done your job. Because if other teams thought so little of your prospects that they kept asking for Matt Shaw and Cade Horton, that kind of seems like your fault. You've been here in some capacity for 14 years now, and your front office's track record of producing good prospects who weren't top ten first round picks is pretty abysmal.
"My job is to keep getting better in this job every year."
Cool. At your current rate of progression, the Cubs should have a really good team in 2146, then.
"When it comes to the trade deadline, I don't [regret not doing more] because I know what the prices were and I know other teams weren't able to acquire it either."
This is such a great answer, every time you give it.
Everybody else was just as inept as we were!
He was asked what needs to happen to progress beyond where they got last year.
"We won 92 games pretty emphatically."
What does that possibly mean?
How do you "emphatically" win 92 games?
Meghan Montemurro asked Jed that if it's going to be harder to get pitching at the deadline every year if he needs to get that done in the offseason.