The Chicago Cubs owe an apology to Joe Maddon right now
The Chicago Cubs won their game last night but they only scored three runs. For the most part, their offense has been horrible. In fact, horrible is making it sound better than it is. It has been one of the worst starts to a season offensively in the history of Major League Baseball. You’d have to go back to the early 1900s to find an offense that started this bad. After reviewing it all, it is time that the Chicago Cubs and their fans gave Joe Maddon an apology.
The Chicago Cubs and their fans owe Joe Maddon an apology for the things that happened.
When Joe Maddon was doing things his way for the Chicago Cubs, they were an explosive group. Year after year, they were a very dangerous offense that was also clutch. Then, they started to change things and take control away from Maddon and they fell off hard. Multiple hitting coaches came through but none of them helped them fix the broken offense. Eventually, Maddon was fired as well. None of it worked as the offense is still atrocious to this day with David Ross as manager.
None of this is a slight to David Ross. He was a great Cub and is doing a good job as a manager. In fact, he might be a great MLB manager in his post-playing days. None of this is his fault either. It just shows that it doesn’t matter who the manager is, they are just a bad offensive baseball team. Guys like Anthony Rizzo, Javier Baez, Willson Contreras, and Kris Bryant aren’t the superstars we thought they were.
It isn’t for anyone to say if they are simply “no longer” superstars or if the one or two great years were the outliers. No matter what you wanna call it, they need to be better if they have any hopes of competing in the National League this year.
It is clear that Joe Maddon wasn’t the problem. Theo Epstein certainly wasn’t the problem either. Both of those guys are going to the Hall of Fame. The players became the problem in the end. Most of the stars still need long-term extensions but they don’t deserve anything too lucrative right now.
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They even claimed that things were too “loose” towards the end of Joe Maddon’s tenure. Well, what is the excuse now? Are they too serious now? No. They just aren’t good enough. People who blamed Maddon for the struggles owe him an apology.