Chicago Cubs offer five-year contract to Theo Epstein – MLB News
The Chicago Cubs have offered a five-year deal to the Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Nathan Epstein. There are reports that he has agreed in principle to the deal.
Ranging from 15 to 18.5-million-dollars, the five-year deal seems to be quite lucrative. However, since a year of his contract with the Boston Red Sox remains, negotiations are underway to sort out the compensation for it.
The reports also suggested that the Chicago Cubs are unwilling to offer any Major League player for the compensation deal. What the management is willing to exchange a few Minor League players.
Theo Epstein rose to the apogee of prominence and subsequently to success, when at the age of 28 he joined the Boston Red Sox as General Manager, making him the youngest GM in Major League Baseball history.
He joined the Boston Red Sox just when the team was undergoing one of their all-time lows. But he helped them win the World Series Championship for the first time in 86 years.
All the same, he did it in 2007 as well. Nonetheless, this year the Boston Red Sox could not continue their dominant winning in the post-season and ended up falling flat.
He is joining the Chicago Cubs at a time when the team finished fifth in the regular season. This was the second year in row when the team ended in this position.
So he is joining the Cubs at a time curiously similar to that of the Boston Red Sox.
“There is unique history in the sense of what [Epstein had] in Boston," Cardinals’ general manager John Mozeliak said Wednesday. "It had been a while since they had success, especially to the level that he brought them to. Obviously, in Chicago they're trying
to replicate that. But I don't want to speak for them."
It will be interesting to see what type of impact Epstein will have on the Cubs organisation. His dynamic managerial style has paid off for the Boston Red Sox in the past and now he will work some of his magic on the Cubs and help them achieve great things
in the future.
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