CHICAGO, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum Thursday accepted the Chicago Cubs manager job.
He accepted a three-year contract with a club option for 2015 and replaced one-year manager Mike Quade, the Chicago Tribune said.
Sveum, 47, reportedly offered the dugout job Wednesday by Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations, will be formally introduced at a Friday morning news conference, the Tribune said.
Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer are trying to turn around the Cubs, who lost 91 games last season.
Sveum and Texas Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux had been considered front-runners for the Cubs' job but Maddux withdrew from contention for family reasons after a Nov. 9 interview with the team.
Sveum had been a third base coach in Boston in 2004-05 before taking a coaching position in Milwaukee in 2006 and led to the Brewers into the 2008 playoffs as a late-season interim manager.
