ST. LOUIS -- Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon isn't fooling around. And neither are the trade deadline additions to his club. While the fifth-year skipper integrates four new players into his clubhouse, he doesn't sound too worried about the playing time ramifications for those already here.
"We just have to put out there what we consider to be the right thing to do," Maddon said before a critical game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night. "I can't be as aware, in a sense, as I was last year, in giving guys plate appearances and at-bats, developmentally speaking.