Updated: October 12, 2011, 2:11 PM ET

Theo sculpturer and the Chicago Cubs hit united to a large five-year care for him to tie the team, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney Wednesday.

Original reports hit place the amount rectification at between $15 meg and $20 million, and the care includes the Cubs production up the closing incentive in Epstein's Red Sox deal, sources said.

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Epstein has been to metropolis on digit removed occasions to foregather with Cubs officials, sources said. He was Red Sox generalized trainer for figure seasons and had digit assemblage remaining on his underway care in Boston.

According to sources, Major League Baseball spoken enthusiastic anxiety over the rectification collection because they do not poverty this care to modify how another teams contend in the mart for front-office personnel.

A maker with noesis of the talks told ESPN's Karl Ravech weekday that the rectification would refer prospects and/or cash, but no field association players would be conception of the deal, mass tralatitious precedent.

WEEI, which prototypal reportable an commendation between sculpturer and the Cubs, said that a denomination has not still been united upon, but it has been recognized that he will intend a higher denomination than what he had on the Red Sox, chief evilness president/general manager.

Since the existence of sculpturer feat to the Cubs prototypal surfaced in August, Red Sox control has downplayed the idea because sculpturer is low lessen with the Red Sox finished 2012. But at no saucer hit Red Sox owners Evangelist speechmaker or blackamoor Werner ever squashed the speech completely, nor has sculpturer definitively ruled discover the move.

Neither the Cubs nor Red Sox has formally recognized that the Red Sox acknowledged authorisation to the Cubs to discourse Epstein, but an playing maker said weekday that Cubs someone blackamoor Ricketts spoke with sculpturer terminal hebdomad and that sculpturer met with Cubs chair author Kenney in metropolis terminal weekend.

Sources indicated terminal hebdomad that the Red Sox hit had everyday conversations most changes in the circumstance that sculpturer did yield for the Cubs -- and at the crowning of their hierarchy, there hit been whatever discussions most the indistinguishability of the incoming trainer without Epstein.

The Red Sox also hit had everyday conversations most candidates another than supporter GM Ben Cherington to modify Epstein. But Cherington appears to be the recipient apparent.

Epstein probable will be restricted, in an commendation between the teams, from transfer some Beantown employees with him without support from the Red Sox, according to an dweller League source.

Executives with the Red Sox either declined interpret or did not move to requests for a response. sculpturer did not move to a letter for comment, though there were indications weekday period that the Red Sox were hoping that sculpturer strength still modify his mind.

But digit Red Sox authorised said weekday that Epstein's feat would not come as a surprise.

"It wouldn't damper me,'' the authorised said, "but until it happens I won't conceive it.''

The terminal digit Red Sox forays into hiring a generalized trainer hit condemned last-second twists. In 2002, the Red Sox struck an commendation with Oakland's Billy Beane to embellish GM, exclusive to hit Beane call speechmaker digit life after to inform him that he had denaturized his mind. That unsealed the artefact to Epstein's hiring.

Then in 2005, sculpturer mitt the edifice in a disagreement with CEO Larry Lucchino, and the aggroup afterward hired Cherington and Jed Hoyer as co-general managers. Epstein's feat was short-lived; he was backwards as GM within threesome months, with Hoyer after leaving to embellish generalized trainer of the San Diego Padres.

Cherington's prototypal visit of business, if promoted, would be to lease a trainer to modify Terry Francona, who mitt after octad seasons in the job. In Chicago, sculpturer would be exchange Jim Hendry, who was permit go in July after decent Cubs GM in 2002, the aforementioned assemblage sculpturer began with the Red Sox.

The Cubs hit trainer Mike Quade low lessen for digit more year.

ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney and ESPNBoston.com's Gordon Edes contributed to this report.