Joe Maddon is out as manger of the Chicago Cubs after the team failed to make the playofffs three years after he helped them snap a 108-year old World Series title drought (AFP Photo).
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates parted ways with their managers on Sunday, insisting they needed to make changes after failing to make the Major League Baseball playoffs.
Joe Maddon will always be known as the manager who broke the longest championship drought in American sports history, but Chicago missed the postseason this year for the first time in Maddon’s tenure.
“We’re in transition,” Cubs president Theo Epstein said. “Change was needed.”
The Pirates also have a vacancy at the manager position after they sacked Clint Hurdle after nine seasons.
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Maddon’s tenure as manager of the Cubs ends three years after he helped the franchise claim its first World Series championship since 1908.
Epstein and Maddon agreed to part ways at the conclusion of the 65-year-old skipper’s five-year contract.
