<p>Everybody calm down.</p><p>The <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" target="_blank" >Cubs</a>, despite looking worse than a last-place 16-inch team at Oz Park during this <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/05/26/cubs-skid-reaches-10-as-pirates-score-early-and-often" target="_blank" >2-14 free-fall heading into Wednesday night’s game in Pittsburgh</a>, are going to be fine.</p><p>How can you not believe it if president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer, on whose watch the Cubs have won one playoff series and zero division titles since 2020, says it’s so?</p><p>“Everyone in there knows we’re going to play better,” Hoyer told reporters at PNC Park before the Cubs recommenced getting their brains beaten in, “but it’s just a matter of when and how that’s going to shake out.”</p><p>For one thing, you just know the Cubs are going to get back to playing their signature brand of stellar defense. Well, they probably will. A lot of it depends on whether or not center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, their most ballyhooed slinger of leather, stops insisting on inserting “Fool’s” before “Gold Glove.”</p><p>What’s eating Pete these days, anyway?