Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts discussed the team’s 2025 outlook, their financial spending and slugger Sammy Sosa being welcomed back to the organization.

“Obviously, we inherited the Sammy situation,” Ricketts said. Sosa’s departure from the Cubs was tumultuous, punctuated by him infamously leaving early from the last game of the 2004 season.

For the first time in nearly 21 years, Sammy Sosa was back at Wrigley Field on Friday, soaking up the love from Chicago Cubs ...

Sosa's absence during the Ricketts' tenure has been noticeable during significant team events, namely the 100th anniversary celebration of Wrigley Field in 2014 and the celebration following the ...

Ricketts said there was “nothing new to report” on the organization’s frayed relationship with Sosa, the franchise’s all-time leader with 545 home runs and a reclusive personality compared ...

Sosa’s been happily married to his wife Sonia for 34 years and the two now call Miami home, where Sosa prays three-to-four times a day and spends as much time as he can with his family ...

CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts anticipates the club’s major-league payroll will end up around the $241 million luxury-tax threshold this year, though that depends on how the rest ...

“Nobody’s perfect,” Ricketts said last month in a statement inviting Sosa to the convention. “But we never doubted his passion for the game and the Cubs.” ...

Though Sosa’s apology will allow the parties to move forward, there are plenty of fans out there who don’t think an apology was needed. In fact, baseball internet personality Jared Carrabis ...

The 20 years of estrangement between the Chicago Cubs and Sammy Sosa was wrong. It was petty, malicious and really made no sense. Under chairman Tom Ricketts, the Cubs refused to permit Sosa, the ...

Sammy Sosa and former first baseman Derrek Lee will be inducted into the ... attended the Cubs' annual fan convention in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 17, when the team's chairman, Thomas Ricketts, ...

Sammy Sosa stats. Sosa had 609 home runs in his career and is the only player in history to hit 60 homers three times in a single season: 66 in 1998, 64 in 2001 and 63 in 1999.