Cubs Midseason Report: Can Jed Hoyer’s Deadline Moves Push Cubs to October? #chicagocubs

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5 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Chicago Cubs head into the second half of the 2025 season sitting atop the NL Central — but the competition is fierce, especially from the surging Milwaukee Brewers. Joey Christopoulos breaks down the Cubs’ first-half performance, key stats, and what Jed Hoyer needs to do at the trade deadline to turn this team into […]

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0:44.3	And now with your host, Joey Christopoulos.
0:49.4	The Chicago Cubs, second half of the season, post-All-Star break.
0:50.8	I have a litany.
0:55.7	I have a Christmas list in the summer of what I would like to see from the Chicago Cubs,
0:59.7	what I think it's going to take for them to not only just play in October,
1:01.2	but have success in October.
1:08.8	And I am going to make, at the All-Star Break, my season prediction for what happens to these Chicago Cubs.
1:11.9	First things first, let's get some of the context out of the way.
1:18.1	Incredibly fun, exciting first half of baseball on the north side for the Chicago Cubs.
1:26.1	A Chicago Cubs team that put a back-to-back 83 win seasons, that first 83 win season with David Ross,
1:32.6	they got super hot in late July and August right around this time, petered off in September, couldn't make the playoffs.
1:35.5	Last year's team was simply just a frustrating mess.
1:46.8	So coming into this year, Jed Hoyer, we all know it, job on the line, out of contract, end of this season, had to make some moves.
1:51.8	And to this point, a lot of the moves that he's made have turned to magic.
1:58.7	At this point right now, we do not know whether the Chicago Cubs are going to make the playoffs or not, but as it stands in this moment right now,
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