The Chicago Cubs announced Tuesday that they would name Mike Quade to be the team’s next manager.
Quade, who was born in Evanston, has been the team’s interim manager since Lou Piniella retired on August 22. However, it was unsure whether the team would stick with him. The team had narrowed their options to Quade and Cubs’ Hall-of-Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg, who has been managing the team’s Triple-A affiliate, the Iowa Cubs, since 2007.
It will be Quade’s first job as a manager of a major league club. Quade has been in the Cubs’ organization since 2003 when he became manager of the Iowa Cubs, and became Chicago’s third base coach in 2007. That year, he was one of five finalists for the major league managerial job that eventually went to Piniella.
Piniella made it clear that 2010 would be his final season with the Cubs earlier in the season before abruptly quitting in mid-August to take care of his mother, opening up the interim job for Quade.