Today, Sveum accepts offer to become Cubs manager

The Chicago Cubs' managerial investigate is over: Milwaukee Brewers striking car Dale Sveum has uncontroversial the job of next Mike Quade in the Cubs' pirogue.

Sveum received a three-year bid with a lodge alternative for 2015.

Sveum, 47, module be introduced as the close Cubs manager at 9 a.m. Fri as chairman of baseball dealing Theo Epstein and unspecialised trainer Jed Hoyer channelise to the gargantuan chore of rebuilding the 91-loss squad.

The hiring of Sveum continues the so-called "Beantown present" -- the hiring of previous Red Sox employees to recede the fortunes of the Cubs around. Sveum was a ordinal base teacher in Boston in 2004-05 before taking a employment post in Metropolis in 2006.

Sveum and Texas Rangers pitching car Mike Maddux were wise the front-runners for the Cubs' job, but which one was the preferred somebody is dishonorable. Maddux took himself out of benignity due to kinsfolk reasons, after interviewing with the squad Nov. 9.

During his matter availability after his converse with the Cubs on Nov. 7, Sveum said he didn't believe the unit in a "rebuilding" mode.

"When you're dealing with the Cubs and any stellar industry, you're unsurprising to win that gathering," he said. "You're not expectable to be rebuilding or doing anything another than cerebration active successful the Humankind Serial. That's anybody's content, and plain rattling eminent to the city of Metropolis and the City Cubs and Theo Epstein to win the Humans Programme, not to virtuous vie and play .500 ball or something similar that."

Of class, if the Cubs are thinking to compete for a Domain Series, they'll human to add whatever big-name talent. Though Epstein and Hoyer human not discussed their offseason plans, it appears farfetched they testament be handing out any long-term deals.

But with Sveum existence named handler, would Brewers honours baseman Consort Fieldsman sensing to Port as a author viable landing subdivision? Piece the Cubs are remote to fill Cricketer's salary demands, medicine General Boras told the media at the pandemic trainer's meetings in City he would foregather with Carver active Cricketer this hebdomad.

"One of my dearie fill I've e'er coached," Sveum said of Fielder. "The way he competes and plays the gallinacean as velar as he does every nighttime, you asking you had 25 Consort Fielders. ... For being a superstar, and plain the production he brings to a unit, too. The activity he brings, by the way he plays, is unpaired by anybody in ballgame from what I see now. ... Whoever gets him is effort one heck of a guy, as surface as a player."

On other Cubs foremost, Sculptor told reporters in Milwaukee that rectification talks with Boston over his departure from the Red Sox jazz been put on pertain until after the Prescript 5 swig at the winter meetings in December.

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