The news that broke at midday Monday that the Cubs had hired Craig Counsell to be the team’s field manager for the next five years shocked everyone. Just a few weeks prior, David Ross had been given a vote of confidence from both President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer and Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts.
Some of the reaction I saw, both in comments here and on social media, bothered me. It was along the lines of, “Well, no one told David Ross first and that sucks and Jed Hoyer is a bad person for doing it this way.