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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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 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!
KG- You’re right. Marquee is only worth it for the Cub games. Everything else on it is trash. I mean Banner runs the Draft and scouting so he’s valuable. No idea what anybody else does. I’ll re up in Feb when the spring games start. Love the spring games so that makes it worthwhile. Plus I get the MLB package for the Minor League games. I put them on my computer if they’re on the same time as the Major League games an watch the prospects I’m interested in as I pay enough. I can at least save a few bucks. Aloha and be well!
It’s nothing to do with the Cubs needs. The truth is the Brewers have more success than the Cubs with less money to spend, which aggravates Jed. Instead of simply flexing the money to be the best in the division, Jed tries to aggressively copy the Brewers in the forlorn hope that replicating every element of their organization will somehow bring success to his own team. Given that the Brewers have three assistant GMs, Jed is merely squaring up with the blueprint so he can keep his organization on pace with the best of the best.
Jed is predictable in that he will he will spend every dollar he is given so he will spend up to the Tax every chance he gets even if he has a prospect who can get the job done so he’s nothing like the Brewers IMO. He couldn’t wait to get rid of Caissie. He had ZERO intentions of ever giving him or Cam Smith a chance to play. So Bullpen by cheap, Wasted Money up to the Tax, Losing his assistants to other teams, I don’t see how any of that remotely resembles the Brewers. Hoyer needs 3 Asst GM’s because they can’t wait to leave and get real jobs ala Scott Harris.
Mike
The Cubs kept Cade Horton and he was awesome.
The Cubs have kept Wiggins, Ballesteros, and K. Alcantara.
They made some smart cheap signings in Boyd and Kelly.
The sky is NOT falling.
Hoyer is a “C+” POBO not an “F”.
Cubs again have the fourth best NL roster right now after the Dodgers, Phillies, and Brewers. If Horton and Steele are both healthy, the team is better prepared for a post-season series. If the Brewers trade Peralta and Megill, then Cubs can slot into third. They just need to keep both Hoerner and Shaw in 2026.
Aloha MLB100, first I’m a fan not in the FO, with some experience in this wonderful game. I look at some of the moves hoyer has made the past two off-seasons and scratch my head. Some good, some questionable. I know an organization can’t keep all of its young talent but one has to wonder at times. Jed knew he traded away a lot for just 1 yr for Tucker, if we are honest as fans, it didn’t work out as hoped for. He traded away a mlb 3B under control and a potential 3B/OF. Jed needed a third baseman and couldn’t get his alex. This put a lot of pressure on Shaw. This off-season I thought hoyer was going after a starter like King or Imai. But once he knew his dear alex opted out, that was it. All these moves so he could overpay a 32yr old for 5yrs. Don’t get me wrong, I like Cabrera very much, I just thought Imai is signed and Caissie splits time with Seiya in RF. Now hoyer and the sports media are acting like alex is the greatest thing to happen and all of a sudden the Cubs are legit. And so much emphasis on him, like Tucker last year. I hope it works out. Alex hasn’t been a 5.0war producer in over 6yrs, after the scandal broke in houston. But maybe 175million reasons changes it. Will be interesting to see how Shaw is used, many think he’ll start the season in AAA, tough for a young player that came through, especially in the 2nd half to end the season with 3.1war. Again, I’m hoping for the best. Mahalo
Hi, kgcubs.
Yes, if I was emperor, things would have gone quite differently. I would have signed both Imai and Quintana and passed on Bregman and passed on trading Caissie for Edward Cabrera. I would have extended Hoerner if at all possible (I think it would have taken less money than Bregman received) and kept Shaw, Caissie, K. Alcantara, Ballesteros and Wiggins.
I am still ok with the Tucker deal last year. The Cubs got nothing out of Paredes last year. If the Rays and Cubs could not fix him it was time to move on, kuds to Astros for fixing his bat. Because I have confidence in Shaw. trading Cam Smith for a year of an elite bat like Tucker was OK with me. I never expected the Cubs to offer Tucker a 10 year deal and I still don’t. Toronto can enjoy!
So I agree with some of the Cubs moves and not others. Bregman was not my first or second choice, but if they keep Hoerner and Shaw, then adding Bregman makes them a lot better, My biggest concern with Edward Cabrera is not his health, but that his home and away splits suggested that he was not that impressive outside of Miami’s home park, which favors pitchers.
Also hoping for the best. Thanks for the good thoughts my friend!
@Uncle: I have no interest in the Cubs Convention, which I think is mostly for children and their childish parents. You and I are old enough to remember a winter baseball activity that was actually cool: the BBWAA “Diamond Dinner.” I went every year. Did you ever go?
No I never went but from what I’ve heard it was like the Dean Martin Roasts except for baseball people. Is that what it was? LOL Some of those writers were really funny and told great stories the few times I ran into one at a bar.
@Uncle: And so I wrote:
Many years ago, there was a yearly event, held in a ballroom of one or another of the downtown Chicago hotels on a Saturday night in January, called the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), Chicago Chapter’s, Annual Diamond Dinner.
The Diamond Dinner had begun as a sort of members-only Lodge meeting for Chicago newspaper writers who covered baseball, I believe in the 1940s, and it soon turned into something that the public was invited to (you bought tickets in advance).
By the time I first went in 1976, it was like this: There was a welcome from the head of the Chicago BBWAA, dinner was served, and then a series of speeches and awards ensued. Cubs and White Sox players and executives (Bill Veeck, Roland Hemond) spoke, and there were always other stars from baseball being honored as well, a World Series hero from the just completed Series, etc.
I think I went for 11 years in a row, starting in ’76, It was a wonderful time. Legendary Chicago sportswriters like David Condon, Jimmy Enright, John Carmichael, and Bill Gleason were there, in tuxes, holding forth in Runyonesque fashion. Players milled around; one year I chatted with a friendly Larry Biittner in the men’s room; another time I said hello to a decidedly aloof Rick Monday in an elevator. One time I saw Sparky Anderson chatting with Bill Madlock and ogling his wife: “We can’t get YOU out, Bill, but I sure would like to go out with your wife,” Sparky said.
The old umpire Tom Gorman was always a featured humorous speaker, telling stories about how he used to get Leo Durocher mad on purpose just to see the veins in his next stick out, that kind of thing. Gorman would sometimes go a little long; one year, after he sat down, program master of ceremonies Condon said, “Tom, I know you are paying for your dinner with your speech, but I didn’t know you ate that much.” It was that kind of an evening, with cigar smoke.
I think the last Diamond Dinner was in 1986. It was announced the next fall that the Dinner was being discontinued. The reason given was that the featured players were no longer willing to come just for transportation and a small honorarium; they were demanding big money that the BBWAA Chicago Chapter did not have to give them. The wonderful tradition died.
At about the same time, the brutally commercial and contrived “Die-Hard Cubs Fan Convention,” later renamed simply the “Cubs Convention”–just to drain it of any hint of humor and humanity, I suppose, how things are named is very revealing–came into being.
I miss the Diamond Dinner to this day. I never have had a slightest desire to attend the Cubs Convention.
The Diamond Dinner was Riverview. The Cubs Convention is Six Flags. If Riverview were somehow to spring up anew at Belmont and Western tomorrow, I suppose today’s public would not like it much. They have been brainwashed to prefer Six Flags. But Riverview was better.
And I used to love to go to the Diamond Dinner on a winter’s night, to visit the country of baseball and laugh my troubles away.
Good for this guy, I suppose. But the Cubs, and every team–or “organization,” as they say within the “industry” of baseball–have become so pretentiously and self-importantly corporate nowadays. It makes me almost miss the days when a couple of Phil Wrigley flunkies were pretty much the Cubs’ front office, them and a handful of scouts who’d call in from Idaho or West Virginia once in a while. Almost.
I’m sure there’s no money involved. It’s just something to put on his Resume’ on his way out of town. We all know the score.