Jed Hoyer: 'Anytime you struggle, you soul search'

Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer admitted he has reconsidered some of his team-building concepts amid the club's struggles in 2024.

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00:00Do you find yourself?

00:02Rethinking your ideas of team-building

00:04When something happens like this where as you said two weeks becomes four becomes six becomes eight now

00:11You're wondering what the mix is. Are you rethinking some of your concepts? I

00:16Think anytime you struggle I think you you soul search and you think think about those things critically I think you'd be

00:24Lying to say that you don't

00:26You know sometimes I think that you know, there are there's a level of randomness to our game

00:32There's a reason we play 162 games, you know that

00:35That that's a reality

00:37But yes, I think of course as you as you think as you struggle you think about you know

00:42All the different decisions you made which things you passed up on which things you

00:47Which things you you you did do and did you do enough? And of course like that's just the nature of these jobs

00:53I think that

00:54You're always a trying to get better, but be you're always always thinking about

01:00Which which decisions you did or didn't make when you're struggling you'd be wouldn't be a competitor and you wouldn't be

01:06How thorough at your job if you didn't think about all those things?