MESA, Ariz. — Tom Ricketts is an owner you can often find walking around Wrigley Field on a game day. It’s not often, though, that the Cubs’ chairman approaches a group of media willing to be grilled with questions. However, following a team meeting before the first full-squad workout officially got underway Monday afternoon, Ricketts did just that. Among the…
First thing Saturday morning, Tom and Laura Ricketts held their family panel at the Cubs Convention for the first time since 2018. The past two Conventions were cancelled due to the pandemic, and the family didn’t hold the panel in 2019 and ’20. The last time Tom took the stage, in January 2020, fans booed when he mentioned the Marquee…
Is this the finished product? Will the Cubs make any more moves before this weekend or is Jed Hoyer done adding this winter? The CHGO Cubs team takes a look at the remaining free agents and maybe another option at 3B. Plus, what will be asked in the Ricketts Family Panel on Saturday? We’re role-playing and predicting what might happen.…
You have to give credit where credit is due: the Ricketts family is picking one heck of an offseason to bring back its ownership panel at the Cubs Convention. Whether its because of the family cutting the session (like 2019, when “fan feedback” led them to pull it and then doing so again the next year) or because of the…
Almost 40 days into Free Agency and the Cubs are still waiting on the shortstop market. Is this the week, or is this a glimpse of the future? The guys react to pitcher Kodai Senga signing with the Mets and Sean Manaea heading to the Giants. Will Carlos Correa get 400 million before this is all said and done? Join…
Happy Monday, everyone.
After a week off due to Labor Day last Monday, we are back with another set of Monday morning thoughts. Because the Cubs are 24 games under .500 with 22 games remaining, there's not a whole lot of game-level stuff to worry about outside of seeing the continued development of a lot of the youngsters on the team.
Today's thoughts, then, are going to focus mostly on this offseason and the storylines for the Cubs in 2023. That's a year when they hope to be much more competitive than they've been this season. That's a year when offseason additions and jumps from the young guys might actually push them to being much more competitive than they've been this season.
So as we get closer to a very important offseason in this rebuild, that's what we should be talking about. And that's where these thoughts from yours truly are centered on.
Let's get into it. Here are some Cubs thoughts for Monday morning.
Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts can often be seen roaming the ballpark during home games at Wrigley Field, chatting with fans who approach him. Now, what exactly do those fans say to him during those interactions? “The fans are great,” Ricketts said Saturday during an interview with about a half-dozen reporters on the Wrigley Field concourse. “I mean, I walk around…...
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