I can't see this season being anything better than C-. Counsell was brought in to get the best out of the players and the Cubs ended up with the same record as last year. Jed did little to fix the pen over the offseason and did nothing significant at the trade deadline. Counsell really put some pressure on Ricketts and Jed to improve the team this offseason. His end of season presser was about 10 seconds long and he basically said we've got to be a lot better.