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CSN Chicago · Sep 28, 2015

Cubs: Maddon plans to juggle rest and winning over final week

When you boil it down, the final seven games of the 2015 regular season don't mean a whole lot for the Cubs.

There is a very small possibility of catching the Pittsburgh Pirates for the homefield advantage in the wild-card game and the Pirates can, in fact, still win the division.

So now that the Cubs have a postseason spot locked up, they can get away with resting players and making sure everybody's fresh for that one-game playoff.

[RELATED - Jake Arrieta ready for do-or-die format of one-game playoff]

Only that's not what Joe Maddon wants to do. The Cubs manager wants to "win as many games as possible."

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