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The new Cubs administration has reached the three-quarters mark of its fertile first 100 days in (front) office and has been nothing short of aggressive with its reformist platform.

Seventy-six days have passed since Chicago introduced Theo Epstein as its new president of baseball operations on Oct. 2, with Jed Hoyer taking over as its new general manager a short while later.

As newly elected politicians quickly dismiss much of the staff and policies they inherited from their predecessors, so too are the Cubs trying to clear the house of dead weight.

There's already been a remarkable amount of attrition. The Cubs have turned over more than one-third of their 40-man roster. With Monday's signing of free agent starter Paul Maholm, they have now swapped in 15 new players, of which 11, more than a full quarter of the roster, are from outside the...

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