What is Joe Maddon's Net Worth?
Joe Maddon is an American former professional baseball manager who has a net worth of $12 million. Joe Maddon had successful runs with the Tampa Bay Rays during which they won the 2008 American League pennant and with the Chicago Cubs where he helped end the team's 108-year World Series Championship drought.
Early Life
Joseph John Maddon was born on February 8, 1954, in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to an Italian father, Joseph Anthony Maddon, and a Polish mother, Albina Klocek. He was raised in their apartment over his father's plumbing shop.
Joe attended Lafayette College where he played baseball and football and graduated in 1976. He earned an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the university in September of 2010. He began a professional career in baseball signing on as a free agent catcher in 1975 with the California Angels. But after four seasons, he never advanced past Class A.
Coaching Beginnings
Joe Maddon stayed on with the Angels and worked as a minor league manager, scout, roving minor league hitting instructor, and coach. Maddon served as a coach for the California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 1993 to 2005. He served as the team's interim manager in 1996 and 1999. As bench coach for the Angels, Maddon won a World Series Championship in 2002. Maddon coached under managers Buck Rodgers, Marcel Lachemann, John McNAmara, Terry Collins, and Mike Scioscia.
Tampa Bay Rays
In November of 2005, Maddon was hired as manager of the Tampa Bay Rays. The team was in a rebuilding phase and held the lowest payroll in baseball at the time. But in 2008, the Rays won the American League pennant with Maddon snagging his first Manager of the Year award. He won American League Manager of the Year again for the 2011 season in which the Rays clinched the American League Wild Card and made it to the American League Division Series. At the end of 2014, Maddon decided to opt out of his contract despite an aggressive push by the team to re-sign him.
Chicago Cubs
Joe Maddon was hired as manager of the Chicago Cubs in 2015 and helped lead them to the National League Championship Series that year. He won his third Manager of the Year award, this time the 2015 National League Manager of the Year. And in 2016, he saw the Chicago Cubs break their 108-year World Series Championship drought with a 4-3 series win over the Cleveland Indians. But after a quick exit from the 2018 playoffs, the Cubs decided not to extend Maddon's five-year contract and let it expire after failing to make the playoffs the next year.
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Return to L.A.
Joe Maddon made his return to the Angels in 2020 on a three-year deal as manager. After a COVID-19-shortened season of 60 games, Maddon made the decision to allow star Shohei Ohtani to both hit and pitch following his 2019 Tommy John surgery recovery and 2020 setback. Maddon's idea of a six-man rotation let Ohtani pitch once every seven days and serve as the designated hitter in between. Joe Maddon was fired by the Angels in June of 2022 amidst a 12-game losing streak.
Personal Life
Joe Maddon has two children and five grandchildren through his first marriage. Maddon married his second wife in 2008.
Maddon started the Respect 90 Foundation that holds an annual charity golf tournament in his hometown of Hazleton and sponsors an annual charity boxing event in Chicago. The Respect 90 Foundation raises funds to help inner city youth.
Tampa Mansion
In 2012, Joe and his wife paid $1.76 million for a 5,400 square foot, ocean-view mansion in Tampa, Florida. They listed this home for sale for $3.9 million August 2021. Two months later the sold it for $3.5 million.
