Epstein: Cubs would like to add ‘at least one quality starting pitcher’

During Thursday afternoon's end-of-season press conference, Cubs President of Baseball Operations, Theo Epstein, was clear about one thing. The Cubs will address pitching this winter.

"The topic sentence is, we would like to add more quality pitching," said Epstein.

"I don't want to take away from the accomplishments of our pitching staff and pitching infrastructure this year, " he said.

And having said that, he was open about being a transparent system in regards to what needs to be done.

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"I don't think we have ever hid the ball in this regard," he added. "We want to continue to add impact pitching, we want to continue to add starting pitching depth at the big league level."

Epstein got even more specific about the Cubs off-season plan. "Whether it's through trade or free agency, we'd like to add at least one quality starting pitcher."