{"id":73019,"date":"2025-08-02T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=73019"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:05:41","slug":"cubs-chairman-says-teams-performance-convinced-him-extending-hoyers-contract-was-right-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=73019","title":{"rendered":"Cubs chairman says team&#8217;s performance convinced him extending Hoyer&#8217;s contract was right thing to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<span data-date=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts came into the season thinking about extending president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer\u2019s contract. The team\u2019s performance convinced him it was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went into the season thinking about an extension,\u201d Ricketts said Friday. \u201cI think the team was playing well enough that Jed had really proven he put a good ballclub on the field. I\u2019ve always been comfortable with Jed. He makes good baseball decisions, and he\u2019s really built a good organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs agreed to a multiyear extension with the 51-year-old Hoyer on Monday. His contract was set to expire at the end of this season, his 14th with the Cubs. Hoyer was hired as general manager in 2011 and replaced Theo Epstein as president of baseball operations following the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>Led by breakout All-Star Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago was second in the NL Central and a game behind Milwaukee at 63-45 entering Friday\u2019s matchup against the Baltimore Orioles. It lost two of three at Milwaukee this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs added depth to their lineup and pitching staff before the trade deadline. They acquired utility player Willi Castro from the rebuilding Minnesota Twins and veteran left-hander Taylor Rogers from the Pittsburgh Pirates. They also got right-handers Michael Soroka from the Washington Nationals and Andrew Kittredge from Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the way he\u2019s methodically gone about developing the right players and bringing them up, looking for the right guys to add, being thoughtful about who he signs,\u201d Ricketts said. \u201cI think all those things have added up. He\u2019s had a good first four years. And then of course going into this season, when we got off to a great start, that just spoke to his decision-making and his judgment, and so we were confident a few weeks ago that an extension was the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts says the team&#8217;s performance convinced him extending president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer&#8217;s contract was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":73020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2765,281,69,282,975,2533,624,2749,77,44,80,291,50,2764,2224,1278,296,2517],"class_list":["post-73019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-andrew-kittredge","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-jed-hoyer","tag-mike-soroka","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-taylor-rogers","tag-theo-epstein","tag-tom-ricketts","tag-washington-nationals","tag-willi-castro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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