Joe Maddon managed the Chicago Cubs to their 2016 World Series championship, ending a 108-year wait for the title.
The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians four games to three in a dramatic series. Chicago came back from a 3–1 deficit and won Game 7 in extra innings, 8–7, at Progressive Field in Cleveland. The victory was the franchise’s first World Series championship since 1908 and its first appearance in the Fall Classic since 1945.
Maddon had become the Cubs’ manager before the 2015 season, and 2016 was his second year in the role. His team won 103 regular-season games, the best record in Major League Baseball, before defeating the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League playoffs. Ben Zobrist was named World Series MVP.
The question asks for the coach, but baseball conventionally uses “manager” for the field leader. Theo Epstein was the Cubs’ president of baseball operations and a major architect of the roster, while general manager Jed Hoyer handled baseball operations with him. Neither was the team’s dugout manager; that was Maddon.