Jed Hoyer: Craig Counsell's steadiness is 'really remarkable' (Hour 2)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.6 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In the second hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer to discuss manager Craig Counsell's impact on the club, how the trade market is shaping up and more. After that, Illinois offensive lineman Josh Kreutz, offensive lineman Josh Gesky and linebacker Gabe Jacas joined the show to discuss the Illini's expectations for the 2025 season.

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0:00.0	Jed's in charge. I'm going on a bender.
0:02.3	Jed Hoyer.
0:03.1	Jed Hoyer, man. What a story that is.
0:06.4	Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations.
0:08.7	You got to get better. And then we should try to be building 90-win teams here.
0:13.3	I mean, you know, that's like what you have to do. That's a playoff standard.
0:17.1	World Series champion general manager.
0:18.8	The key to this whole operation is going to be building that scouting and player development
0:22.0	machine. The Cubs way. A little bouncer slowly toward Bryant. He will glove it and throw to Rizzo.
0:27.1	It's in time. And the Chicago Cubs win the World Series.
0:31.6	Jed Hoyer. Should we count my no comments on this question?
0:34.9	See how many we get to in six months?
0:37.2	Jed Hoyer with Spiegel and Holmes on 670 the score.
0:42.7	Jed Hoyer is sponsored by the all-new Toyota on Edens in Northbrook.
0:47.2	Visit Toyota on Edens.com.
0:50.4	It's our pleasure to bring in the president of baseball operations of the Chicago
0:53.5	Cubs.
0:54.4	Jed Hoyer here on the score.
0:56.8	Jed, thanks so much for joining us.
0:58.2	We appreciate it.
0:59.6	Things have been going really well for your team, even when they haven't had slug.
1:05.0	How satisfying is that to see that your team is so well-rounded?
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