{"id":9248,"date":"2014-10-29T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:48:26","slug":"cubs-to-hire-joe-maddon-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/29\/cubs-to-hire-joe-maddon-as-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs to hire Joe Maddon as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9181\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/joemaddon.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/joemaddon.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/joemaddon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMove over Rick Renteria, the Chicago Cubs have hired Joe Maddon as their manager according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman says that a deal is done that will make the former manager of the Tampa Bay Rays the new manager of the Cubs in 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>joe maddon to become cubs manager. story up soon at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSports\">@CBSSports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/status\/527572122642944001\">October 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heyman spent nine seasons as the manager of the Rays but when general manager Andrew Friedman left the team Maddon quickly made the same decision. He was 754-705 during his tenure with the Rays which included six straight winning seasons from 2008 to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Rick Renteria, the Chicago Cubs have hired Joe Maddon as their manager according to multiple reports. CBS Sports&#8217; Jon Heyman says that a deal is done that will make the former manager of the Tampa Bay Rays the new manager of the Cubs in 2015. joe maddon to become cubs manager. story up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,862],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-mlb-joe-maddon-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","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=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}