Many of the top starting pitcher did not get moved at the 2025 MLB trade deadline, and Chicago Cubs' president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer spoke about why the Cubs' didn't get a top starter and why many other teams didn't either.

Here’s why the Cubs gave Jed Hoyer a contract extension in 2025, one of the biggest front office moves of the season in Chicago.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs’ targeted, incremental moves around the trade deadline did not leave chairman Tom Ricketts disappointed. Roughly 74 hours before Thursday’s 5 p.m. CT deadline, the Cubs announced a contract extension for president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer, whose group has built one of the National League’s best teams.