SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Cubs team president Jed Hoyer arrived at his hotel suite in Scottsdale late Monday after a long day. The news he’d given manager David Ross that morning in Florida had to be conveyed in person after all they’d been through together — hence, the trip to Tallahassee before the general managers’ meetings.
“It just felt like an exceptionally hard decision, but one I felt like I had to make if the opportunity was there,” Hoyer said Tuesday of firing Ross to hire Craig Counsell as manager. “From my perspective, my job is to figure out how to win as many games as we possibly can in the short term and in the long term. And there was nothing about this move that didn’t feel like it met that criteria.
