{"id":15205,"date":"2019-09-29T19:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2019-09-29T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:27:59","slug":"the-joe-maddon-era-has-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-joe-maddon-era-has-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joe Maddon Era Has Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-joe-maddon-era-has-ended\/maddon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15206\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/maddon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/maddon.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/maddon-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/maddon-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>After 5 seasons, the Cubs and Joe Maddon have agreed to part ways as his initial contract with the club expires with the end of the 2019 season.\u00a0 Maddon, who was hired under <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-joe-maddon-era-has-begun\/\">dubious circumstances<\/a> following the 2014 season, put together one of the best runs in franchise history, with 3 straight trips to the NLCS and a World Series victory that broke a 108 year curse on the north side.\u00a0 The last 2 years, though, have ended in disappointment, with September swoons that led to a Wild Card loss in 2018 and missing the playoffs completely this year.<\/p>\n<p>Maddon is likely to land on his feet, with attractive openings in San Diego and, potentially, Philadelphia.\u00a0 The Angels, Maddon&#8217;s one time employer, have hinted they are willing to pull the same move the Cubs did 5 years ago, dumping their manager after one year for a shot at Maddon.\u00a0 Wherever he ends up, he will try to rebound and re-find his winning touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 5 seasons, the Cubs and Joe Maddon have agreed to part ways as his initial contract with the club expires with the end of the 2019 season.\u00a0 Maddon, who was hired under dubious circumstances following the 2014 season, put together one of the best runs in franchise history, with 3 straight trips to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6980,110,120,896,1647,231,254],"class_list":["post-15205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-angels","tag-cubs","tag-joe-maddon","tag-nlcs","tag-padres","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15208,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions\/15208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}