Joe Maddon showed how important it is to a baseball team to have a good manager. Maddon is an excellent in-game manager that makes the right calls more often than not. And he has also learned over the years how to manage people, lead a group of players and turn individuals into a team.
Maddon and his coaching staff transformed the Cubs from a last place team that did not know how to win games to a team full of confidence that accepted and embraced the ‘We Are Good’ mantra and rode it all the way to the NLCS.