The Cubs have interviewed six men for the open manager’s position: Joe Espada, Joe Girardi, Gabe Kapler, Mark Loretta, David Ross and Will Venable.
According to Gordon Wittenmyer in the Sun-Times, you can eliminate four of those six names:
After an interview Monday with Espada that sources say impressed Cubs executives, insiders suggest it’s a two-man race for the Cubs job, with in-house candidate Ross holding the edge.
Ross, a special assistant to the front office since retiring as a player after winning the 2016 World Series, has been the Cubs’ presumptive manager-in-waiting since Epstein tabled contract extension consideration for Maddon a year ago.