Maybe Jed should admit this is a rebuild

The "next great Cubs team" sure looks a long ways away

Maybe Jed should admit this is a rebuild

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The Cubs have had a couple of clutch wins already this week. One run wins over the team with baseball’s best record, the Tampa Bay Rays have kept the Cubs a half game ahead of their rival Cardinals in the race for last place in the Central and for the worst record in the National League.

Just like they drew it up when they spent the winter trying to convince us that they weren’t going to suck this year.

Perhaps the biggest mistake Jed Hoyer has made in his time as Cubs President of Baseball Incompetence was in the aftermath of the great trade deadline selloff of 2021, when he refused to say the Cubs were rebuilding.

It was a show of obstinance that positioned the roster teardown as a quick fixer upper, and it was apparent to anybody with a brain that it very much was a complete rebuild.

For those of us who are older than 12, we’ve lived most of our lives with the Cubs refusing to tear down their perennial bad rosters and start over. Except for the early days of Dallas Green, when he remade the Cubs by digging through the Phillies’ dumpster, every regime until Theo Epstein (and Jed in whatever tangential role he actually played) slapped some spackle on the roster year after year, brought in a few mediocre free agents and rushed some mediocre prospects to the big leagues for predictable, yet uninspiring results. Rinse, repeat.

And so, when Jed tsk tsked the media for trying to label his complete decimation of the roster as a rebuild, we knew what we were in for.