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SPORTS Saturday 17 december 2016

In this Sept. 19, 2016, file pho-
to, then-Chicago Cubs clos-
ing pitcher Aroldis Chapman
(54) celebrates with manager
Joe Maddon after defeating
the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 during
a baseball game in Chicago.
Associated Press

Yankees’
Chapman:

Cubs’ Maddon

misused

me during
postseason

RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Aroldis
Chapman says Cubs man-
ager Joe Maddon misused
him during the postseason,
putting the hard-throwing
reliever on the mound too
often in Chicago’s success-
ful effort to win the World
Series for the first time since
1908. Traded from the New
York Yankees to Chicago in
late July, Chapman got the
victory in Game 7 against
Cleveland after wasting
an eighth-inning lead. He
became a free agent and
agreed to an $86 million,
five-year contract to return
to the Yankees, a deal fi-
nalized Thursday.
“I think he was wrong in
the way he used me. He
abused a little bit on how
much he made me pitch,
and sometimes he made
me pitch when I didn’t
need to pitch,” Chapman
said Friday.

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