From the moment Joe Maddon joined the Chicago Cubs, taking the reins in a Wrigleyville bar five years ago, he talked about winning. Right until Maddon's time in Chicago ran out. The Cubs will have a new manager next season after Maddon and president of baseball operations Theo Epstein announced
From the moment Joe Maddon joined the Chicago Cubs, taking the reins in a Wrigleyville bar five years ago, he talked about winning.
Maddon and Epstein met after Saturday's 8-6 victory at St. Louis, and then shared their plans before Sunday's finale against the Cardinals. Maddon's contract expires after the game. "I want to continue to do this, whatever's next out there, I want to be able to be on top of that too," Maddon said."All of it's been positive, man, and it's been interesting, entertaining and quite frankly for this time of year feeling pretty good, feeling pretty eager about everything, so it's been a good year."
"You look at the home and road splits and what we've done on the road ... I mean these are like some really crazy, hard-to-wrap-your-mind-around things," Maddon said in September."I don't know if somebody's going to dig deeply enough to really figure it out, but it's really, just to have your mind try to extrapolate what is going on here, it's hard to pinpoint anything.
With Maddon gone, the focus turns to Epstein, and the club's continued inability to develop pitching help for the major league roster. Yu Darvish rediscovered his form after it looked as if the Japanese right-hander might have trouble living up to his $126 million, six-year contract, but reliever Brandon Morrow's $21 million, two-year deal was a costly mistake.
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