Joe Maddon helped bring the Cubs what we had all been waiting for, for 108 years.
He and the team moved on after 2019 and he signed a three-year deal to manage the Angels, the organization where he’d started his career and spent 31 years, including a couple of stints as interim manager in 1996 and 1999.
Maddon’s first two Angels teams were underachievers, in part due to injuries. But they got off to a great 27-17 start this year, and hopes were high in Anaheim.
Like last year’s Cubs, the Angels are in freefall, currently on a 12-game losing streak in which they’ve been outscored 78-35.