I’m going to steal the Chicago Cubs president’s words by starting off saying Joe Maddon is most likely a Hall of Fame manager and maybe the best Chicago Cubs manager of all time. What Maddon has done is amazing and beyond words.
I mean, we’re talking about the man who turned the Lovable Losers into a perennial postseason contender. He took the Cubs from their darkest days early in the rebuild to shocking the baseball world with 97 wins and a run to the NLCS in 2015. Of course, he followed that up with a division title and World Series championship the next year and yet another NLCS appearance in 2017.