Chicago Cubs: 3 mistakes that led to 2021 dismantle of roster

The Chicago Cubs were one of the best teams in Major League Baseball for a few years there. They had a core filled with players like Anthony Rizzo, Jon Lester, Kris Bryant, Javier Baez, and Willson Contreras that led to a lot of wins. Unfortunately, they have started to dismantle that core as they try to rebuild their team for the future. They ended a World Series drought that lasted 108 years but now it is time to move on.

Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, and Javier Baez are the three biggest pieces from that group that was moved during the week of the 2021 MLB Trade Deadline. The Cubs were not a very good baseball team before that and now it is even worse. They haven’t been World Series contenders since 2017, despite being pretty good in 2018 and 2020.

All of those guys are going to be remembered in Chicago for a very long time. They were all elite for their entire tenures but it was time for a change. That was proven when they all hit home runs in their first games with their new teams.

They will be fan favorites for a long time but they will also be playing with their news teams for the rest of this season and we will see what happens beyond that. Some people are hopeful that they return after the season is over but that is incredibly unlikely.

It is up to Jed Hoyer to get the Chicago Cubs rebuilt and back in a winning direction.

There are a lot of reasons to wonder what happened. Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer, and the entire management did a very good job early on but some big mistakes have led to the dismantling that you saw last week. These are the three biggest mistakes that the team made that led to it: