Ricketts Keeping things the way they are…….for now

Tom Ricketts, the new chairman of the Chicago Cubs has said that he is not going to make any changes in personal. This means that Crane Kenney, Jim Hendry, and Lou Piniella, are all safe for the time being. I was hoping he would come in and clean house little. Jim Hendry has locked the Cubs into so much money over the next few years with these big back loaded deals and there doesn’t seem to be a need for Kenney now with Tom Ricketts, so why keep them? It looks that Tom Ricketts is going to keep things the same for next season and learn the business over the 2010 season. Then once he has a better understanding of it, he may make changes he can justify. Tom Ricketts has also said he doesn’t plan to bring in anymore baseball people to add another layer. He says he trusts the staff in place and doesn’t plan to do that. This was surprising to me because there were many reports he would. This makes sense though. Even though Hendry had a few years left on his contract, why bring in someone else and keep Hendry. That would just make things harder to do business. Let’s just hope they can get the team ready for next season!