Serving as the Cubs hitting coach is sort of like being married to Henry VIII, as heads roll with alarming frequency when the reckoning for the broken offense needs a scapegoat. That could have been Anthony Iapoce, who just finished up his second year with the club and first under rookie skipper David Ross. A front office pick to replace Chili Davis in Joe Maddon‘s final season, Iapoce’s focus on the mental game hasn’t yet yielded the expected results at the plate.
Despite several hitters posting career-lows all over the backs of their baseball cards in the shortened season, Sahadev Sharma and Patrick Mooney of The Athletic report that Iapoce is expected to return for the final year of his deal.