Anthony Rizzo’s front office comment sounds a lot like today’s Cubs problems

Even with the injuries he had with the New York Yankees last season, it's still surprising that former Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo wasn't able to land with another Major League team this season. While Rizzo has yet to officially retire from Major League Baseball, the Cubs' World Series hero is starting to venture out into the world of television work, recently appearing on Apple TV's Friday Night Baseball presentation.

Rizzo was also recently on the Glory Daze podcast with Johnny Manziel and seemed to take a veiled shot at the Cubs' front office.

Anthony Rizzo just exposed a Cubs problem that still hasn’t been fixed

To the surprise of no one, Rizzo confirmed that winning the World Series is hard. It still comes as a surprise that 2016 was the only World Series that the Cubs won with the core that had Rizzo at the center. However, as Rizzo was talking about those early years after the World Series, it's clear that there was some animosity between the players and the team's front office.

There has long been a belief that the players from the Cubs' previous contending core did not believe the front office did all they could to extend the window of the team. Rizzo all but confirmed that sentiment when he suggested that the Cubs players of yesteryear were looking around and wondering why more was not done to supplement the roster after 2016.

Of course, the obvious connection to Rizzo's comments is what happened following the 2018 season. Despite the Cubs seemingly being on a path to land Bryce Harper, and Harper wanting to play for the Cubs, the team had a dormant offseason, setting the stage for Harper to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies. Tom Ricketts has since called that his biggest regret.

Rizzo's comments also seem to suggest that there is a morale boost within the clubhouse when the front office makes impact moves. The timing of such confirmation is ironic, considering the one thing the Cubs certainly did not do at the 2025 deadline is make an impact move. Of course, Jed Hoyer remains the common denominator between the front office from post-2016 and the current front office.

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