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CHICAGO — Former Philadelphia Phillies supervisor Joe Girardi has joined Marquee Sports activities Community as a recreation analyst for the Chicago Cubs, considered one of his former groups.
Marquee mentioned Wednesday that Girardi will be part of Jon Sciambi and former huge league pitcher Jim Deshaies within the sales space for this weekend’s collection towards Milwaukee. He additionally will work subsequent month’s collection at Miami.
“Rising up a Cubs fan after which having the possibility to play for the crew for a lot of years, I am honored to now have the chance to broadcast from the historic tv broadcast sales space,” Girardi mentioned in a press release.
Marquee Sports activities Community is collectively owned by the Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Girardi, 57, was the supervisor in Philadelphia earlier than he was fired in June. He had a 132-141 report over three years with the Phillies.
Girardi additionally has managed the Marlins and New York Yankees. He skippered the Yankees to a 910-710 report in 10 seasons, together with the franchise’s most up-to-date World Sequence championship in 2009.
The Peoria, Illinois, native performed school ball at Northwestern earlier than he was chosen by the Cubs within the fifth spherical of the 1986 newbie draft. The catcher made his huge league debut with Chicago in 1989 and spent 15 years within the majors, ending with a .267 batting common, 36 homers and 422 RBIs.
