Why the Chicago Cubs restructured their hitting coach setup on the big league staff — plus updates on Willson Contreras’ and Drew Smyly’s futures

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Hitting coach instability has been a staple of the Chicago Cubs big-league staff over the last decade. Greg Brown lasted only one season in the lead hitting coach role, replaced by Dustin Kelly late last month shortly after Kelly became the organization’ s minor-league field coordinator. In addition to Kelly’ s promotion, Juan Cabreja, Jim Adduci and Alex Smith...

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