Chicago Cubs’ Owner Tom Ricketts Continues Clueless Display by Extending Fleita

Chicago Cubs' owner Tom Ricketts has guaranteed the contract of Vice President of Player Personnel Oneri Fleita for four more years.

It's not that Fleita isn't a good baseball man, although I have my concerns. The bigger problem I have with this move is that it further handcuffs the next Cubs' GM and seems hypocritical of other recent comments made by Ricketts.

‘‘The GM will be responsible for the baseball operations,’’ Ricketts recently told the media, ‘‘The results are his, and he owns them. They have to be able to have the freedom to hire the people they feel will...

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