Jed convinced PTR to spend approximately $45m more in payroll this season, pushing them into a range he's never allowed before and he's going to get back a team that wins less games than the year before, with postseason TBD. Really bad look for Jed to trot out a roster with a bottom 5 pitching staff, injuries or not. The fact that he can't find one reliable reliever on this team and avoids velocity like the plague is jarring especially considering there's a team spending a fraction of what the Cubs do that's able to build a dominant bullpen, trade away half of them, and then build another one the next year.
Something has to change with their approach to pitching. Even if they somehow get hot and make a postseason run, the current approach is just not working well enough.