Paul Sullivan: New Cubs manager David Ross wants to be known as more than 'Theo's guy'
by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
Jan 17, 2020
3 minutes
CHICAGO - Newly hired Cubs managers tend to come in two categories: realists and optimists.
A few weeks into his first spring training in 2007, Lou Piniella declared "this is no push-button operation, I can tell you that." During his opening news conference as Cubs manager in November 2014, Joe Maddon predicted he would be "talking playoffs next year."
Both were right, and despite their yin-and-yang approaches to the job, Piniella and Maddon became the two most successful Cubs
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