The Cubs announced a series of internal promotions within their baseball operations department yesterday, as relayed by Jordan Bastian of MLB.com. Among them, Garrett Chiado is now an assistant general manager.
Chiado was first hired by the Cubs in 2016 in the research and development department. He subsequently served as director of pro strategy and director of pro analytics. Now he gets a bump up the chain to the assistant general manager position.
Chicago’s front office is headed by Jed Hoyer, who is the president of baseball operations. Just beneath him is general manager Carter Hawkins. With Chiado’s promotion, they now have three assistant general managers. Ehsan Bokhari was hired away from the Astros in October of 2021. Jared Banner was promoted from the vice president of player development role in November of 2023.
Hoyer took over in November of 2020 and the club has largely been focused on player development in his time. The big league team hovered around .500 from 2021 to 2024 but took a big step forward in 2025 by winning 92 games and beating the Padres in the Wild Card round, before falling to the Brewers in the NLDS. They have recently made some aggressive moves to build out the 2026 roster, trading for Edward Cabrera and signing Alex Bregman.
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Inflation of job titles has kept with the increase is salaries.
I don’t know this guy but the Cubs are becoming a fun team to watch. Congrats to this dude.
Nothing in here about his days as a Staten Island Trackman intern? Do better trade rumors.
Hawkins already parrot’s Hoyer’s every word, Gets the coffee and keeps the toilet dispensers filled. What’s this guy going to do? BTW anyone who is thinking about spending money to get Marquee to watch the Cubs convention save your money. They suckered me last year and I learned absolutely nothing from there and neither will you. It’s money you’ll never get back. Wait until the spring games start.
Aloha Uncle, LOL! I didn’t want to support Manfred and the mlbtv so I found a way to get Marquee and was very disappointed. $20.00 a month, not worth it. Maybe Chiado goes to the draft kings building next to Wrigley every day to place a bet for hoyer, they have a pretty good team put together now 😂. Mahalo!