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Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson didn’t send president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer nearly as many texts this offseason, compared to years past.
“He can thank Josie for that,” Swanson quipped at Cubs Convention last month.
The birth of Dansby and Mallory Swanson’s daughter this winter has kept the Chicago sports power couple busy. And while Dansby has embraced frank and frequent communication with Hoyer on team-building over the years, the clubhouse leader’s attention this offseason was required elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Hoyer and his front office group remade the bullpen, upgraded the rotation, and patched the lineup’s loss of right fielder Kyle Tucker with the signing of veteran third baseman Alex Bregman.