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Rudy Jaramillo To Sign With Cubs

Posted on October 21st, 2009 11:34am by Ryan Jones
Filed under Baseball, Breaking News

According to Bruce Levine, Rudy Jaramillo will do his coaching in Chicago for a while. After already being one of the highest-paid coaches in baseball last year, Jaramillo will make more than $800,000 a season to fix a Cubs offense that broke in a big way in 2009, ranking 22nd in the majors in runs scored and 26th in team batting average. Jaramillo will be reunited with former Ranger Milton Bradley, assuming the Cubs don’t cast him aside in the offseason, who enjoyed a career year under Jaramillo in 2008. Alfonso Soriano, another former pupil, is also on the team.

Jaramillo took a lot of heat last season after the Rangers failed to score 800 runs for the first time since 1995 and ranked 24th in MLB in on-base percentage while leading the American League in strikeouts. But David Brown at Baseball Time in Arlington broke down Rudy’s tenure in Texas last week, which yielded some interesting results.

The Rangers, meanwhile, don’t seem to be very far along in the process of finding a replacement for Jaramillo.

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