Jed Hoyer is sticking around in Chicago.
The Cubs reached a multi-year extension with their president of baseball operations on Monday, the team announced. Specifics of the new deal are not yet known, though Hoyer’s current contract with the Cubs was set to expire after this season.
“Jed and his baseball operations staff have built a healthy player development organization and put an exciting, playoff contending team on the field,” chairman Tom Ricketts said in a statement. “We are looking forward to the rest of the season and to working with Jed for years to come.”
Hoyer has been with the Cubs since 2011, which makes him one of the longest-tenured front-office executives in the league. He joined the franchise alongside then-president Theo Epstein as general manager and helped orchestrate the team’s World Series win in 2016. That snapped a championship drought that had gone on for well over a century. Hoyer took over as the team’s president after the 2020 campaign, when Epstein stepped down, and he signed a five-year deal at the time.
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Hoyer largely broke up the Cubs’ World Series group during his first season at the helm, sending away Anthony Rizzo, Javier Báez and Kris Bryant in quick succession ahead of the 2021 trade deadline. Four years later, the Cubs are back in the mix with several new young stars, including NL MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong, who was part of those trades four years ago. Hoyer also hired manager Craig Counsell in November 2023.
Although the Cubs yet haven’t made the playoffs under Hoyer’s leadership, the team holds a 62-43 record entering Monday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers. They are tied with the Brewers for first in the NL Central, which they haven’t won since 2020.
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While they aren’t quite back to where they were a decade ago, the Cubs clearly believe Hoyer is the man to get them there again.
