During Joe Maddon’s last couple of years as Cubs manager, there was quite a bit of churn in the coaching staff. From 2017-19 the Cubs went through two bench coaches, three pitching coaches and three hitting coaches, as well as miscellaneous changes in other coaching positions.
You can probably guess that this provided too many mixed messages to Cubs players. I’m not saying that the coaching changes were a cause of the Cubs’ failures over the last couple of seasons, but they certainly could not have helped much.
It had been assumed by some that new manager David Ross might keep a fair number of the 2019 coaching staff, as at least some of them appear to be favorites of the front office.