{"id":4844,"date":"2013-09-30T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:34:11","slug":"cubs-fire-manager-dale-sveum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/30\/cubs-fire-manager-dale-sveum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs fire manager Dale Sveum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4845\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4845\" alt=\"Source: Christian Petersen\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/dalesveum.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/dalesveum.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/dalesveum-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/dalesveum-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Christian Petersen\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs have fired manager Dale Sveum after two-years of managing the team. Sveum was 127-197 during his two years as the Cubs manager.<\/p>\n<p>Team president Theo Epstein met with Sveum Monday morning, after the meeting Sveum was fired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we made the very difficult decision to relieve Dale Sveum of his duties as Cubs manager,&#8221; Epstein said in a lengthy statement. &#8220;Dale has been a committed leader for this team the last two seasons, and I want to thank him for all of his dedication and hard work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his own authentic and understated way, Dale always put the team first and never complained about the hand he was dealt,&#8221; Epstein said. &#8220;He and his staff helped us excel in game planning and defensive positioning, contributed to the emergence of several players, and helped put us in position to make some important trades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no doubt that &#8212; much like Terry Francona, whom we hired in Boston after his stint with a losing Phillies club &#8212; Dale will go on to great success with his next team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs have continually been linked to New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi whose contract is up at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs have fired manager Dale Sveum after two-years of managing the team. Sveum was 127-197 during his two years as the Cubs manager. Team president Theo Epstein met with Sveum Monday morning, after the meeting Sveum was fired. &#8220;Today, we made the very difficult decision to relieve Dale Sveum of his duties as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,484],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-dale-sveum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}