Cubs announce Minor League Managers, Coaching Staffs and Field Coordinators for the 2017 season The Cubs announced Friday the organization’s minor league managers, coaching staffs and field coordinators for the 2017 season. The top five teams in the Cubs’ system will all have the same skippers as last season. Marty Pevey (Triple-A Iowa), Mark Johnson (Double-A Tennessee), Buddy Bailey (High-A Myrtle Beach), Jimmy Gonzalez (Low-A South Bend) and Jesus Feliciano (Short-Season Class-A Eugene) … [Read more...]
Cubs Announce Minor League Managers, Staff and Coordinators for the 2016 Season
The Cubs announced the managers and coaching staffs Thursday for each of its minor league affiliates and the organization’s minor league coordinators for the 2016 season. Marty Peavy (Triple-A Iowa), Mark Johnson (Double-A Tennessee), Buddy Bailey (High-A Myrtle Beach), Jimmy Gonzalez (Low-A South Bend), Jesus Feliciano (Short-Season Eugene), Carmelo Martinez (Rookie Ball Mesa), Claudio Almonte (Dominican 1) and Pedro Gonzalez (Dominican 2) will be the eight skippers in the Cubs … [Read more...]
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – Meet the Minor League Managers
Meet the Minor League Managers As a primer to the upcoming minor league season, here is an in-depth look at the managers of each level of the Cubs’ system. Marty Pevey, Triple-A Iowa With a 33-year career of professional baseball, Marty Pevey brings a wealth of knowledge as he enters his third season as the manager of the Triple-A Iowa Cubs. A catcher for Georgia Southern University, Pevey was drafted in 1982 by the Minnesota Twins in the 19th round. After playing 24 games for Elizabethton … [Read more...]
Cubs Announce Minor League Managers, Staff and Coordinators for the 2015 Season
The Cubs announced the managers and coaching staff Wednesday for each of its minor league affiliates and the organization’s minor league coordinators for the 2015 season. The 2015 season will be the first year for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (High-A), South Bend Cubs (Low-A) and the Eugene Emeralds (Short-Season Low-A) in the Cubs’ system, joining the Iowa Cubs (Triple-A) and Tennessee Smokies (Double-A). Marty Pevey (Triple-A Iowa), Buddy Bailey (Double-A Tennessee), Mark Johnson (High-A … [Read more...]
Cubs Notes from Down on the Farm – 07/26/14
While much of the recent focus is on the upper portion of the Cubs’ minor league system, not enough can be said about the job being done by managers Mark Johnson and Gary Van Tol for the Kane County Cougars and the Boise Hawks respectively. Both have done outstanding jobs in juggling their rosters and developing players. Johnson has had 21 position players and 22 pitchers come through Kane County, yet steer them to the best record in the Midwest League. Despite having seven different players … [Read more...]
Boise Hawks Release Tentative Opening Day Roster
The Boise Hawks, the Short-Season A-Ball affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, released a tentative Opening Day roster Monday afternoon. Gary Van Tol’s team begins the 2014 season this Friday against Tri-City at Memorial Stadium in Boise. For those familiar with the minor leagues, the Hawks’ first roster is chocked full of names that you may have heard before. Eleven of the 25 players have seen action already in affiliated minor league games, with six of those eleven appearing at Low-A Kane County … [Read more...]
Cubs Working on the Big League Roster, Focus on the Minors and Other News and Rumors
Weekend Update It could be a very busy 72 hours throughout the game leading up to Christmas, especially if the Rakuten Eagles finally make a decision, one way or the other, to post Masahiro Tanaka. Players prefer to know where they will be playing prior to the holidays and there are several free agents still unsigned for next season. The last high-dollar, long-contract, free-agent position player of the off-season came off the board on Saturday when Shin-Soo Choo agreed to a seven-year, $130 … [Read more...]
Cubs Announce Minor League Managers, Staffs and Coordinators for the 2014 Season
The Cubs announced the coaching staffs for all minor league levels and field coordinators on Wednesday. There was very little turnover or changes made to the coaching staffs that were in the Cubs' system a year ago with the exception of the pitching coaches. Marty Pevey (Triple-A Iowa), Buddy Bailey (Double-A Tennessee), Dave Keller (High-A Daytona), Mark Johnson (Low-A Kane County) and Gary Van Tol (Short-Season, Low-A Boise) were retained to run the five upper level teams in the Cubs' … [Read more...]
Cubs Announce Minor League Managers, Staffs and Field Coordinators for 2013
The Cubs announced the coaching staffs for all minor league levels and field coordinators on Tuesday morning. The Cubs retained several coaches and reassigned a few of them to different levels of the system as well as added a few new coaches to the organization. Marty Pevey will manage the I-Cubs after serving as the minor league catching coordinator for the last three seasons. Brian Harper, as expected, was named hitting coach of the I-Cubs. Harper managed the Smokies in 2011 and the D-Cubs … [Read more...]