Say what you will about Joe Maddon‘s in-game decisions, but one thing is for sure: the man forever changed what it means to be a Chicago Cubs fan. Expectations have changed from a .500 campaign being a success to an ‘October or bust’ mentality in five short years.
Last offseason, Cubs ownership put a spending cap on the front office, limiting what Theo Epstein could do to address the team’s holes. We all saw them – and spent pretty much the entire winter talking about how this could be one of those decisions that came back to haunt Tom Ricketts.