Jed Hoyer reaches multi-year contract extension with Cubs

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00:00Cubs baseball president Jed Hoyer and the team agree on a multi-year extension.

00:05Wow, that's very interesting timing.

00:08Very interesting timing. Good for Jed.

00:11Why do you say it's interesting timing?

00:12Because the deadline is forcing all sorts of activity and all sorts of decisions.

00:21You see Seth Lugo got an extension by the Royals who decided to not part with him

00:27because conversations take place because they have to at this point.

00:32If Jed Hoyer is making decisions that could destroy the farm system in a go-for-it year

00:40that is his final year, maybe you want him to think more holistically.

00:45Right. Think about the fact that you're going to be the steward of this thing for a while

00:49and not just we're throwing a raging kegger to finish your tenure as Cubs president of baseball operations.

00:56His mentor Theo Epstein left before he had to facilitate the trades that he knew were going to have to be made.

01:03He sure did.

01:04So he left and then Jed made the decisions that affected his tenure.

01:10So Jed now this week is going to make decisions that affect his own tenure.

01:17That's significant to me. That's why the timing jumps out to me.

01:20There's a part of me that wonders though, if you're a Cub fan,

01:23do you kind of want lame duck Jed to go out there and be like,

01:27I don't care. It's not my problem.

01:30We're going to spend.

01:32It's a good question because I think the decisions that are being made this week

01:37for a lot of franchises are based on,

01:39do you want to go for it and win the World Series right now or not?

01:43You know, do you want to extend your time horizon when you're on your deathbed?

01:48Are you going to say, boy,

01:50I gave our organization a chance to win for a period of seven to nine years.

01:55Ha ha ha!

01:56Ha ha ha!