Jed Hoyer’s future with the Chicago Cubs has been somewhat forgotten about as the trade deadline has taken up many of the headlines in July, but the lame-duck president of baseball operations has now secured a contract extension.
According to The Athletic’s Sahadev Sharma, the Cubs and Hoyer have agreed to a multi-year extension. Hoyer, who took over the top spot in the front office after Theo Epstein left in 2020, was in the final year of his original five-year contract with the Cubs.
It’s taken a while for Hoyer to put a legit winner on the field, but after trading for Kyle Tucker, signing Matthew Boyd and re-shaping the bullpen with the underrated moves, the 2025 Cubs enter the final week of the trade deadline with the best record in the National League.
Hoyer’s club is batting the Milwaukee Brewers atop the NL Central and the Cubs have reportedly been active in the trade market looking to upgrade the pitching staff. Several top prospects have been rumored to be discussed in trade talks and now we’ll see how Hoyer acts, if at all differently, now that he has a contract extension.
Whether it’s selling, buying, a combo of both, Hoyer’s front office has been active during every trade deadline under his watch. Now that the Cubs are in a prime spot to really go for it in 2025, fans are anxiously waiting to see how the team will improve for the stretch run.
The Cubs have officially announced the extension.
Hoyer has had to fight off criticism from the fan base since he was the one calling the shots in 2021, when the World Series core was traded off. The Cubs went into a rebuild that summer, but never really tanked to the degree that they did after 2011. After a 74-88 season in 2022, the Cubs won 83 games in back-to-back years, but failed to reach the postseason in either campaign.
This was a huge year for Hoyer as he entered 2025 without an extension and pressure to deliver a winning team. So far, so good as Craig Counsell has managed to the team to the top of the league in his second year after Hoyer stole him away from the Brewers. The job isn’t done though as the Cubs need to add to the roster and now Hoyer doesn’t have to think about his future at least for a bit longer.
