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Cubs Manager Joe Maddon Expected To Keep His Job Through Next Season, Despite Team’s Elimination From Playoffs

Cubs Manager Joe Maddon Expected To Keep His Job Through Next Season, Despite Team’s Elimination From Playoffs

Despite their season-ending game on Tuesday versus the Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon is expected to keep his job through the 2019 season. Maddon officially has one year left on his five-year, $25 million contract. He is set to earn around $6 million in the 2019 season alone, according to reporting from ESPN. […]

6y ago

Chicago Cubs Considered A Strong Contender To Sign Free Agent Pitcher Alex Cobb

Chicago Cubs Considered A Strong Contender To Sign Free Agent Pitcher Alex Cobb

The Chicago Cubs officially added Jim Hickey as their new pitching coach, and there is some speculation that free agent pitcher Alex Cobb may soon follow. On Tuesday, the Chicago Cubs announced the hiring of Hickey to take on the role as the Cubs’ pitching coach, according to NBC Chicago. The Cubs are hoping to […]

7y ago

Washington Nationals Set To Name Cubs Bench Coach Dave Martinez New Manager

Washington Nationals Set To Name Cubs Bench Coach Dave Martinez New Manager

The Washington Nationals are expected to name Davey Martinez the team’s new manager after the World Series between the L.A. Dodgers and Houston Astros comes to an end. Several media outlets have reported the Chicago Cubs bench coach has reached a three-year deal with a team option for a fourth season. The veteran Martinez takes […]

7y ago

Runs A Plenty As Dodgers Complete Sweep Of Cubs

Runs A Plenty As Dodgers Complete Sweep Of Cubs

The three-game series was lauded as an early National League Championship series preview. Yet, after the first two games of the series, the hype has all but died down with the Dodgers having their way with the potent Chicago Cubs. That trend would continue Sunday in the Dodgers 9-4 win over the defending World Series […]

7y ago

Joe Maddon Responds To Criticism From Aroldis Chapman

Joe Maddon Responds To Criticism From Aroldis Chapman

Joe Maddon is a living legend in Chicago now that he broke the curse that kept the Chicago Cubs from winning the World Series for over 100 years. Ask any Cubs fan and they will likely tell you that Maddon could do no wrong, but during the World Series, he made a questionable decision in […]

7y ago

Chicago Cubs: Has Joe Maddon Sealed First-Round Induction Into Baseball Hall of Fame?

Chicago Cubs: Has Joe Maddon Sealed First-Round Induction Into Baseball Hall of Fame?

Congrats, folks; you now get to tell your children you stayed up on a work or school night to watch a sports curse end. By now, we all know what happened on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The Chicago Cubs, after 108 long years of waiting, broke a World Series drought with an 8-7 […]

8y ago

2016 MLB Awards: Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers Set To Dominate Trophy Season

2016 MLB Awards: Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers Set To Dominate Trophy Season

Goodbye, regular season and welcome, award season. With only eight teams remaining in the hunt for the World Series, people with no vote for any of the major baseball awards — Most Valuable Player, Cy Young, etc. — can now take to the internet to give their useless thoughts about who should win what award. […]

8y ago

MLB Rumors: Cubs Adding Offense For Deep Playoff Run

MLB Rumors: Cubs Adding Offense For Deep Playoff Run

Now that the non-waiver trade deadline has passed, MLB rumors are shifting toward what teams may do in August to bolster their playoff chances. The Chicago Cubs are still looking to make at least one move to improve their offense before the waiver trade deadline on August 31. The Cubs made a significant trade to […]

8y ago

Chicago Cubs Utility Man Not Happy About Being Demoted

Chicago Cubs Utility Man Not Happy About Being Demoted

Most Major League Baseball clubs would love to have the problem that the Chicago Cubs are having right now. They’ve actually got too many good players. Even after a rough stretch that saw their National League Central lead over the St. Louis Cardinals dwindle by quite a few games over the past month, the Chicago […]

8y ago

Chicago Cubs Seek To Reverse 108-Year Curse, Beginning On Opening Day

Chicago Cubs Seek To Reverse 108-Year Curse, Beginning On Opening Day

Chicago Cubs fans are long-suffering, and their team’s long plight is well-known. they have not won a World Series Championship since 1908, when Teddy Roosevelt was president; the Cubs have not been to a World Series since 1945, when Harry Truman was president and World War II had just ended; in 1984 and 2003, Chicago […]

8y ago

MLB News: Chicago Cubs Sign Ben Zobrist, Trade Starlin Castro To New York Yankees

MLB News: Chicago Cubs Sign Ben Zobrist, Trade Starlin Castro To New York Yankees

With several teams vying for his services, versatile switch-hitter Ben Zobrist will sign with the Chicago Cubs on a four-year, $56 million deal as first reported by Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The deal is pending a physical. JUST IN: Ben Zobrist has agreed to sign with the #Cubs via @Ken_Rosenthal pic.twitter.com/7LSUWQXjqX — FOX Sports: […]

9y ago

Chicago Cubs Trade Rumors: Chase Utley May Be Headed To The Cubs

Chicago Cubs Trade Rumors: Chase Utley May Be Headed To The Cubs

According to Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Cubs are considering pursuing a player that would strengthen not only their infield defensively, but offensively as well. The Chicago Cubs are ranked 23 in runs this season, with 396. The Chicago Cubs may pursue Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley prior to the August […]

9y ago

MLB Trade Rumors: Chicago Cubs Interested In David Price?

MLB Trade Rumors: Chicago Cubs Interested In David Price?

Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline is just over one week away, and one more major name could be on the move. The Detroit Tigers’ left-handed pitcher David Price has become a topic of discussion as the team falls further out of playoff contention. If he is made available, there will be several potential suitors. […]

9y ago

Chicago Cubs Rumors: Ben Zobrist Is On Top Of Team’s Wish List

Chicago Cubs Rumors: Ben Zobrist Is On Top Of Team’s Wish List

As expected with such a young team, the Chicago Cubs 2015 campaign has been like a roller coaster ride with lots of ups and down. The Cubs, whose roster’s average age is 28.7 years old, enter the third month of the season with a 26-22 record. Chicago currently sits in second place in the National […]

9y ago

Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant Stellar In Second Major League Game

Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant Stellar In Second Major League Game

After a somewhat disappointing major league debut on Friday, Chicago Cubs super-prospect Kris Bryant had an impressive outing on Saturday against the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field. Bryant displayed more patience and restraint at the plate on Saturday compared to his eagerness to swing at the ball on Friday. After striking out three times […]

9y ago

Kris Bryant Has Less Than Stellar Debut For Chicago Cubs

Kris Bryant Has Less Than Stellar Debut For Chicago Cubs

Kris Bryant was living any number of young kids’ dreams on Friday afternoon. The superstar phenom who fans have nicknamed “Sparkles” was called up to the Major Leagues a little more than two years after being drafted. Kris Bryant has long been thought of as the culmination of a rebuilding process that has seen the […]

9y ago

Paul Molitor Set To Be Named Manager Of Minnesota Twins

Paul Molitor Set To Be Named Manager Of Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are expected to name Paul Molitor as their next manager as early as Monday. Molitor will replace Ron Gardenhire, who was relieved of his duties this past season. Molitor, a Hall of Famer and coach on Gardenhire’s staff, will become the 13th manager in Twins history as reported by the Chicago Tribune. […]

10y ago

Joe Maddon To Manage The Chicago Cubs?

Joe Maddon To Manage The Chicago Cubs?

Joe Maddon is set to be named the new manager of the Chicago Cubs. Maddon just last week informed the Tampa Bay Rays that he would not be returning and rumors began immediately, one of which was reported on the Inquisitr, that he would be heading to Los Angeles to take over the Dodgers from […]

10y ago

Los Angeles Dodgers Rumors: Joe Maddon Quits As Tampa Bay Manager, Now L.A. Bound After All?

Los Angeles Dodgers Rumors: Joe Maddon Quits As Tampa Bay Manager, Now L.A. Bound After All?

Rumors around the Los Angeles Dodgers manger’s job are certain to heat up again, after Friday’s stunning announcement by Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon that he has quit the team. While new Dodgers General Manager Andrew Friedman has said publicly that current skipper Don Mattingly will “definitely” hold the job in 2015, the sudden […]

10y ago

Tampa Bay Rays Manager Brings 20-Foot Python Into Clubhouse

Tampa Bay Rays Manager Brings 20-Foot Python Into Clubhouse

Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon brought a 20-foot python into the team’s clubhouse before a game against the Seattle Mariners in what he said was an attempt to motivate the team. Maddon said he had been researching and found out that 2013 is the year of the snake on the Chinese calendar, so figured […]

11y ago

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