Chicago Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts is Confident About Club's Future

Tom Ricketts, owner of the Chicago Cubs, sees this season as a 'success' and it has nothing to do with their record.

Kade Kistner | Sep 14, 2022

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As the Chicago Cubs sit with the ninth-worst record in MLB, one can't help but think of the future and potential contention. Maybe even as early as the 2023 MLB season.

With the club long out of contention, Cubs owner Tom Ricketts is already doing that too.

Speaking with the media and NBC Sports Chicago, Ricketts lauded his club's young core, their development, and what they can offer the team in the coming years, this season be damned.

“Look, we’re starting to build that good young core. I feel great about our team next year. I’ll led Jed decide how to put resources to work to get us back on top.”

When asked when the Cubs would truly compete again, or at the very least not be actively rebuilding, Ricketts once again went back to the Cubs' young stars.

“The fact is we have to follow through on how you build a consistent winner. And the way to build a consistent winner is to find a good young core, supplement them with the right guys at the right time. And I have confidence that Jed knows what he’s doing.”

Here at Inside the Cubs we have spoken extensively on how Chicago has the young players to help supplement and justify spending on proven veteran free agents this offseason. There is a huge crop of star-power that will be available in the free agent market this winter, and there may be no better place for them to land than in a media market like Chicago.

Of course, just paying for a championship team doesn't always work, just ask New York Mets owner Steve Cohen. Ricketts admitted as much.

“The fact is you can’t buy a championship team in baseball. You have to build it. And that’s what we’re doing."

Yet, the club has plenty of resources and Jed Hoyer is sure to add some players, especially in the rotation, and potentially a shortstop that could shorten the timetable to contention, much like the path the Texas Rangers took when they spent over $500 million Corey Seager and Marcus Semien this past offseason.

“The ball’s in Jed’s court when it comes to how and where he puts financial resources to work. He’s got a lot of flexibility,” Ricketts said. “So you let him do it. You let him decide what he wants to do.”

This offseason is sure to be an exciting one for the Cubs, even if this season wasn't quite the 'success' Ricketts deemed it to be.

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Published Sep 14, 2022

KADE KISTNER

Kade Kistner is the publisher and beat writer for Sports Illustrated's Inside the Cubs. An alumnus of Tulane University, Kade graduated in 2017 with a degree in Latin American Studies and a minor in Spanish. Upon graduation, Kade commissioned into the United States Navy and attended Naval Flight School in Pensacola, Fl. He served as a Naval Aviator and was stationed in Jacksonville, Fl. During his time in school and the Navy, Kade began covering the MLB and NFL with USA Today, SB Nation, and Sports Illustrated. Kade covered the New Orleans Saints, Texas Rangers, and numerous other teams within the Sports Illustrated network before launching Inside the Phillies, Inside the Astros, and Inside the Cubs. You can follow him on Twitter at @KadeKistner, or if you have any questions or comments he can be reached via email at kwkistner@gmail.com.