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Cubs’ Jed Hoyer just said the quiet part out loud about 2026 MLB trade deadline
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With the Chicago Cubs preparing for the trade deadline, the team could look to make some moves, especially with the injuries the ball club has been dealing with. As the Cubs could target pitching with the injuries they're facing, the team's president of baseball operations, Jed Hoyer , would comment on their plans for the trade deadline.
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In Hoyer's speaking to the media on Friday, Jesse Rogers of ESPN would say that Chicago is going to be in "wait-and-see mode," as the executive said that there isn't a lot of movement at the moment when it comes to the market.
"No surprise, but after trading for David Peterson , the Cubs, like most teams, will be in [wait-and-see mode] now," Rogers wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Jed Hoyer today: 'There's not like tons of teams looking to move players at this moment. Everyone is bunched together.'"
The Cubs have already made a trade
The Cubs have got a head start in making moves to address the pitching need as the team traded for David Peterson from the New York Mets , but it could be easy to think that the ball club would look to add more. However, Chicago manager Craig Counsell had an interesting point about how putting full trust in most moves that come through waivers.
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"Look around the league, acquisitions don't happen every day," Counsell said, via The Athletic. "They happen on waivers, maybe, every day. That's about it."
"The cumulative effect is you just start running out of pitchers in your organization that are ready to go," Counsell continued. "We have, obviously, bodies. But the quality has to go down. We don't have that big of a stockpile. I don't think anybody does. So we're going to have to get through it. We'll keep looking for guys that can do the job."
When reliever Hoby Milner went on the injured list (IL) last week, that marked the 12th pitcher on the team that went on the IL, as it remains to be seen what the Cubs do before the trade deadline.
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