The Cubs are making some teaching modifications, as relayed by Jesse Rogers of ESPN on X. The membership is letting go of first base coach Mike Napoli, assistant hitting coach Jim Adduci, bullpen coach Darren Holmes and “a few power coaches.”
All three of the coaches are former main league ball gamers. Napoli was within the majors from 2006 to 2017, principally as a catcher and first baseman. After retiring, he joined the Cubs’ teaching workers going into the 2020 season as high quality assurance coach. He turned the membership’s first base coach going into the 2022 season.
Adduci’s main league profession spanned from 2013 to 2019, however with a two-year stint within the KBO sandwiched in there, as he performed in Korea in 2015 and 2016. The Cubs employed him going into 2021 with the title of run manufacturing coordinator, although his present title is listed on MLB.com as “assistant hitting coach, recreation planning.”
Holmes pitched within the majors from 1990 to 2003. He has labored as a bullpen coach for a number of organizations in recent times, taking that title with the Rockies from 2015 to 2019, the Orioles from 2020 to 2023 and the Cubs in 2024.
The Cubs employed Craig Counsell to be their supervisor in November of final yr. His first season in Wrigley resulted in a report of 83-79, the identical mark the membership posted final yr. It’s at all times tough to inform how a lot blame/credit score ought to go to any particular person coach when staffs are composed of dozens of individuals, however it appears Counsell and the Cubs have determined to make a couple of modifications as they give the impression of being to take a step ahead subsequent yr.
