The Chicago Cubs want to make it to the playoffs next season, and team president Jed Hoyer says he's optimistic the team can do it.

Hoyer has been with the Cubs since 2012, first as general manager before being promoted to president of baseball operations in 2020 after Theo Epstein stepped out. He's under contract through next season. The Northsiders have yet to reach the postseason since he took over baseball operations.

Jed Hoyer figured he would be discussing a potential playoff matchup rather than a season that fell far short of expectations.

When we signed the deal in late February, if he had a good year, we knew he’d have a lot of options,” Hoyer said.

For the second consecutive year, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer sat at the dais trying to explain why a team built with playoff aspirations was again sitting at home as Major League Baseball’s postseason got underway.

Unless chairman Tom Ricketts puts an extension offer under his president’s nose — and why would he? — Hoyer will have only one year left on his contract to deliver on his “next great Cubs team” promises.

Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer met with news media Tuesday morning, as he does every year when the season ends. He did express regret that this presser was being held today, as opposed to the team being in the postseason,