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LAS VEGAS – Leading up to the GM Meeting this week, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer and chairman Tom Ricketts met multiple times to nail down the team’s offseason budget.
“We’re not at a final number yet,” Hoyer said Tuesday, “but I’ve got a good sense of where we’ll be.”
Hoyer, of course, didn’t share that range, wanting to maintain the competitive advantage of secrecy while negotiating with other teams and player agents. He declined to reveal whether it would be more substantial than last season, when the large-market Cubs went into domestic opening day with the No.