After leading the Milwaukee Brewers to the playoffs for the fifth time in 6 years, Craig Counsell has chosen to head Chicago Cubs are working with Counsell as their following manager, sources informed The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal on Monday. David Ross had actually been the Cubs' manager for the previous four seasons, and he hadn't been Tanner Bibee Jersey openly fired prior to the records of Counsell's  New york city Mets and Cleveland Guardians were amongst the various other teams supposedly interested in Counsell, whose contract with the Brewers ended at the end of the 2023 period. It temporarily felt like Counsell would go back to Milwaukee, nevertheless, after the Mets hired New york city Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza to serve as their next supervisor and previous All-Star catcher Stephen Vogt was named supervisor of the Guardians earlier Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had actually also reported that the Brewers had actually used Counsell a new contract that would pay him about $5 million a year, which would certainly make him the highest-paid supervisor in all of threw a wrench because assumption by reporting Counsell would certainly not be in the Brewers' dugout come 2024. As it turns out, the Cubs inevitably won the bidding process war for Counsell's  MLB Network's Jon Heyman, Counsell will have the greatest typical yearly salary by any kind of supervisor in league history. Rosenthal later on reported the deal in between Counsell and the Cubs was for 5 years and over $40 took control of as the Brewers' manager in 2015, and he transformed them right into a winning team by 2017. After leading the club to the NLCS in 2018, Counsell led Milwaukee to 2 more NL Central titles and 2 even more NL Wild Card places in the following 5 the last 9 seasons, Counsell is 707-625. He is once more an NL Manager of the Year candidate in 2023 after completing second in 2018, 2019 and 2021. Before his time as a manager, spent 16 seasons as a player in the big leagues. He played six years with the Brewers, one more six with the Arizona Diamondbacks, et cetera with the Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers, winning 2 World Collection in the process https://www.guardianssportsshop.com/collections/cade-smith-jersey.