“It’s not about how much you spend,” Tom Ricketts said on The Score’s Mully & Haugh Show (10/30/2019). “It’s about how much you win. And the correlation between spending and winning is not nearly as strong as we’d like it to be...” — Patrick Mooney {$}.
This defines the offseason so far.
The Cubs did not hit the luxury tax in 2018, so this was only a 20 percent tax on the overages. If they eclipse the threshold again in 2020, they will be looking at a 30 percent luxury tax and would see their top draft pick drop 10 spots if they go over by $40 million.