The Cubs entered this season with hopes of emerging as a legitimate contender in the National League. Instead, those plans have fallen flat.

The Cubs are 35-39 and in last place of the NL Central entering action Wednesday. They are part of a significant pack in the league’s wild-card race vying for a spot in the postseason.

The Cubs’ struggles this season stem from a flawed organizational philosophy that starts with president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer, as 670 The Score host Laurence Holmes said on the Bernstein & Holmes Show.

“You’re supposed to be the team that’s setting the market and not always reacting to it,” Holmes said. “And I feel like that’s part of Jed’s nature as an executive, is passive. And I would like for him to be less passive. Instead of letting things happen in the National league, why aren’t you setting the agenda? In this division and in the league. And then, when they don’t get to where they want to go, it feels like, ‘Oh, everything kind of happened around us.’ There were things that were in your control that you decided: let’s wait.”

Holmes pointed to the success of the Dodgers, who are 46-29 and in first place of the NL West division race despite a rash of injuries to key players like star Mookie Betts and ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

The Cubs host the Giants on Wednesday afternoon in the rubber match of their three-game series at Wrigley Field.