Jed Hoyer Expresses Regret Over Kyle Schwarber Non-Tender

There’s no need to relitigate the move and subsequent fallout, but I wanted to touch on this topic since Jed Hoyer said the quiet part out loud on David Kaplan’s REKAP podcast. Speaking to the host and former Cubs (current Reds) beat writer Gordon Wittenmyer, the Cubs’ baseball boss covered a number of topics from their remaining offseason plans to past regrets.

If you’ve read the headline, you know where this is going.

“The obvious one as I look back was non-tendering Schwarber,” Hoyer admitted. “We just didn’t have any money after Covid. I had to cut money and that was the move we had to make. I look back on that one and it just feels like we were right about the player. In the end, we were right.

“We ran out of time and patience and money. I feel like he should be a Cub.”

That’s just the hardest of oofs, man, especially because you’re talking about $10 million for a guy who by all accounts loved the Cubs and wanted to be there. Kinda funny that this is all coming up in the wake of the Cubs failing to reach an agreement with Kyle Tucker on his 2025 salary, something Hoyer also addressed on the podcast.

Their $2.5 million gap is more a matter of the arbitration system than anything else, Hoyer explained, and shouldn’t be viewed as an indication of their desire or ability to work on an extension. Not that it’ll convince anyone who’s already made up their mind otherwise.

Okay, that’s it. Just wanted to put this out there for posterity, so I won’t go back over the disparity between the number of nine-figure deals the Cubs and Phillies have signed.

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