The Cubs fired hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo.

Minor league hitting coordinator James Rowson, 35, was named interim hitting coach. He joined the Cubs organization in the offseason after spending the past six seasons in the New York Yankees organization, including the last four as their minor league hitting coordinator.

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The Cubs started to show some life offensively this past weekend at Minnesota, but they still remained 15th in the 16-team National League in on-base percentage at .304 at the start of play Tuesday. They were 14th in runs scored at 222 and 10th in batting average at .247.

This reminds me of what happened to Leo Mazzone when he left Atlanta. Jaramillo had a great reputation in Texas, but in each case the talent may have been better than the coaching. I also suspect Rudy didn’t line up with the way Theo Epstein and his ex-Boston crew like to do things.