You don’t need to look any further than this offseason, where the most active teams were baseball’s richest. The Mets have spent the most money ($939,950,00) followed by the Dodgers ($374 million) and the Yankees ($235.5 million).

Cubs owner Tom Ricketts knows there’s only so much they can do when trying to compete with the spending abilities of teams such as the Mets, the Yankees and the Dodgers. There’s only so much Ricketts can do with trying to attract stars with comparable contracts while still breaking even in the end.

On the weekend of the annual Cubs Convention that serves to get fans excited for the upcoming season, Tom Ricketts did a good job of pouring cold water on