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Six months after hiring their star manager, the Cubs have finally been cleared in the Joe Maddon tampering case.
The Tampa Bay Rays pushed Major League Baseball to launch the investigation after Maddon used an escape clause in his contract that triggered once executive Andrew Friedman left to run baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers last October.
“I don’t really know why it had to take so long,” Maddon said Wednesday at Wrigley Field. “We’re all glad that’s in the rearview mirror right now.”
Commissioner Rob Manfred had anticipated a resolution by Opening Day, but there was apparently no smoking gun.