Cubs exec swaps sports to work for Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks named Cubs assistant general manager Jeff Greenberg as their associate GM on Thursday.
Greenberg, 36, has worked for the Cubs since 2012, when he started as an intern. He worked with them in a variety of roles, including director of baseball operations, before being promoted to assistant GM in 2020.
Greenberg, who will begin with the Blackhawks on May 9, was a finalist for the team’s GM position. Kyle Davidson, 33, was named to that role in March.
Chicago was in search of a replacement for Stan Bowman, the longtime general manager who resigned early this season due to his role in the franchise’s mishandling of the Kyle Beach sexual abuse case in 2010.
Per the Blackhawks, Greenberg will oversee the strategic systems and processes that will fuel the team’s hockey operations group. Greenberg will join fellow associate general manager Norm Maciver, 57, and Davidson as what the team labelled the Blackhawks’ “core brain trust.”
The Blackhawks (28-42-11, 67 points) have been eliminated from post-season contention for the second straight season and fourth time in five years.
“What I’ve learned about the Blackhawks is they’re serious about using this rebuilding period to not only set this franchise up to be the best in hockey, but the best in all of sports moving forward,” Greenberg said. “There couldn’t be a more exciting time to get in on the ground floor of this journey and pursue every possible solution to put this team back on the path to winning hockey.”
Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi was diagnosed with a torn ACL in his left knee, team president Dayton Moore said, and likely will miss the remainder of the season.
Mondesi’s injury occurred in Tuesday’s game against the White Sox. He was off to a slow start with a .140 batting average and no extra-base hits over his first 15 games. In seven seasons, all with the Royals, he is a .244 hitter with 38 home runs and 157 RBIS over 358 games.
The Royals also optioned righthander Brady Singer to triple-a Omaha and recalled outfielder Kyle Isbel, as well as infielder Emmanuel Rivera. Singer, 25, had a 6.35 ERA in three relief appearances with the Royals.
Premier League club Chelsea is on borrowed time and has only weeks to complete its sale, Britain’s secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport told the BBC on Thursday.
Chelsea was put up for sale by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich before sanctions were imposed on the oligarch by the British government over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leaving the club unable to sign new players or renew contracts.
Final bids for the club were submitted earlier this month.
“Chelsea is very much on borrowed time at the moment. There is a very short window left for that sale to take place. It has to happen soon,” Nadine Dorries told the BBC’S Newscast podcast.
The Wild signed Swedish defenceman Simon Johansson to a two-year, entry-level contract Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed for Johansson, the Wild’s fifth-round pick in the 2018 NHL draft.
Johansson, 22, had 32 points in 58 games this season with Ilves Tampere in his first season in Finland’s Elite League.
The Stockholm native spent the previous four seasons competing with Djurgardens IF in Sweden’s Elite League.