In building the “next great Cubs team,” Chairman Tom Ricketts appears all-in on the current rebuild mission with many major-league auditions and stockpiling of minor-league talent for the second consecutive second half.
“You can’t buy a championship team in baseball,” Ricketts told reporters Saturday after the induction of outfielder Jose Cardenal, venerable announcer Pat Hughes and the late Buck O’Neill in a Cubs Hall of Fame ceremony. “You have to build it. That’s what we’re doing.”
Ricketts added that Jed Hoyer, the president of baseball operations, has “gotten a lot of flexibility. Let him decide what he wants to do.