{"id":25682,"date":"2025-10-03T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25682"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:44:53","slug":"rangers-focusing-manager-search-on-skip-schumaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25682","title":{"rendered":"Rangers focusing manager search on Skip Schumaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The Rangers&#8217; search for Bruce Bochy&#8217;s replacement is centered on Skip Schumaker, a former National League Manager of the Year who has worked in the organization for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lead candidate internally that we&#8217;re focused on,&#8221; Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Young acknowledged that he had begun what he would consider a formal interview process and that there were not yet any external candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, we haven&#8217;t focused there yet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our hope is that we don&#8217;t have to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Schumaker, a special adviser for the Rangers, was the 2023 NL Manager of the Year when the Miami Marlins went 84-78 and made the fourth postseason appearance in club history. That was the same year Texas, with Bochy in his debut, won its first World Series championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers and the 70-year-old Bochy, a four-time World Series champion who was baseball&#8217;s winningest active manager, agreed Monday to end his managerial stint at the end of his three-year contract. That was the day after Texas finished 81-81 for its second non-winning record since its championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins slipped to 62-100 in 2024 after changes in the front office and a roster decimated by trades and injuries. Schumaker and the team agreed that he wouldn&#8217;t return for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Texas hired Schumaker in November, a move viewed by many as making him the heir apparent for Bochy. Schumaker remains under contract with the organization through the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>Seven other major league teams are also looking for new managers. Young wouldn&#8217;t say if any other teams had requested permission to speak with the 45-year-old Shumaker about their openings.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if there was worry about Schumaker in relation to those other openings, Young said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not overly concerned at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before going to Miami, Schumaker was a bench coach in St. Louis, where he played for the Cardinals during their 2011 World Series win over the Rangers. He played 11 big league seasons with St. Louis (2005-12), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2013) and Cincinnati (2014-15).<\/p>\n<p>Rangers general manager Ross Fenstermaker said that while Schumaker lives on the West Coast, he has been very involved with the team in his advisory role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;d spend time with us and many different folks in the front office, add his perspective, his wisdom. He was around and available a lot,&#8221; Fenstermaker said. &#8220;We probably talked to him every few days, if not daily, throughout the course of the year and bounce ideas off him and get his perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bochy has been offered an advisory role in the Rangers front office. He also could be in line for a position with the San Francisco Giants, though he isn&#8217;t a candidate for the managerial opening of the team he led to three World Series titles from 2010 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>With 2,252 wins, Bochy is sixth among all managers, with the five ahead of him all in the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The Rangers&#8217; search for Bruce Bochy&#8217;s replacement is centered on Skip Schumaker, a former National League Manager of the Year who has worked in the organization for the past year. &#8220;We have a lead candidate internally that we&#8217;re focused on,&#8221; Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said Friday. 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