The overall vibe around the Cubs is that they’re still all in this together.
“I was on the radio today and they’re asking me like six questions about last night’s game,” Hoyer said. “None of those six would have been asked if we had won. It’s such a results-based business in the sense of: Did you win? And if you won, you kind of forget all those things. And if you lose, people question every move.
“Make up a number of moves in a given game. Let’s call it like five to 10 moves in a given game. and Andy are going to go through it and they’re almost all probabilistic decisions that they’re making. But some of them are going to go wrong. That’s just the nature of it. The manager in every market in baseball — other than maybe — is going to face that when you lose close games. The nature of our team is it feels like we played so many close games that it probably magnifies it.
When the bullpen wasn’t working early in the season, Hoyer took the blame for how it was constructed. Hoyer acknowledged Ross’ options were limited when a strategy that had repeatedly worked for the Cubs in recent years — signing veteran relievers with certain attributes to low-cost, one-year deals — did not pay immediate dividends.
At the start of spring training, the Cubs were counting on four primary relievers who have been marginalized due to injuries and/or ineffectiveness —
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