Yankees’ Chapman: Cubs’ Maddon misused me during postseason

FILE - In a Monday, May 9, 2016 file photo, New York Yankees relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman delivers in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium in New York. Hard-throwing reliever Aroldis Chapman completed his return to New York when the Yankees finalized his $86 million, five-year contract on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) FILE - In a Monday, May 9, 2016 file photo, New York Yankees relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman delivers in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium in New York. Hard-throwing reliever Aroldis Chapman completed his return to New York when the Yankees finalized his $86 million, five-year contract on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

By Associated Press December 16, 2016 1 min read

NEW YORK (AP) – Aroldis Chapman says Cubs manager Joe Maddon misused him during the postseason, putting the hard-throwing reliever on the mound too often in Chicago’s successful effort to win the World Series for the first time since 1908.

Speaking through an interpreter Friday after finalizing an $86 million, five-year contract to return to the New York Yankees, Chapman said: “I believe there were a couple times where maybe I shouldn’t be put in the game and he put me in.”

He cited Game 6 of the World Series, when he entered with a 7-2 lead.

Chapman says he was close to signing with Miami but decided against the Marlins because “as you all know from time to time they change their team a lot.”