American manager Craig John Counsell, born August 21, 1970, is presently the manager of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Chicago Cubs. He holds the team record most managerial victories with the Milwaukee Brewers, when he was previously the manager. Of the team’s nine career postseason appearances, he guided them to five of them.
Known for his distinctive batting posture, Counsell was an infielder for five different teams throughout his 16-year MLB career. With the Florida Marlins in 1997 and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001, he won the World Series. He has had a number of other noteworthy playoff performances. Counsell holds the unique distinction of having scored a walk-off hit to end the World Series the last two times he was on base.
The birthplace of Counsell is South Bend, Indiana. He played baseball at Whitefish Bay High School while attending Whitefish Bay High School, where he was raised in Wisconsin. John, his father, was the director of community relations and speakers bureau for the Milwaukee Brewers. Counsell played baseball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish while a student at the University of Notre Dame.[1][2] With a career batting average of.306, 204 runs, 166 RBI, 50 doubles, and twice as many walks (166) as strikeouts (82), he played infield for the Irish and graduated in 1992.
In the eleventh round of the 1992 MLB Draft, Counsell was chosen by the Colorado Rockies. On September 17, 1995, he made his Major League Baseball debut with the Rockies, playing in just three games that season. In July 1997, the Rockies traded Counsell to the Florida Marlins in exchange for Mark Hutton. He was the Marlins’ starting second baseman right away. After tying the game in the bottom of the ninth with a sacrifice fly, he scored the game-winning run for the Marlins in the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series on an Édgar Rentería single over pitcher Charles Nagy’s head.