Rangers focusing manager search on Schumaker

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Rangers' hunt for Bruce Bochy's replacement is centered connected Skip Schumaker, a erstwhile National League Manager of the Year who has worked successful their enactment for the past year.

"We person a pb campaigner internally that we're focused on," Rangers president of shot operations Chris Young said Friday.

Young acknowledged that helium had begun what helium would see a ceremonial interrogation process and that determination were not yet immoderate outer candidates.

"At this point, we haven't focused determination yet," helium said. "Our anticipation is that we don't person to."

Schumaker, a peculiar advisor for the Rangers, was the 2023 NL Manager of the Year erstwhile the Miami Marlins went 84-78 and made the 4th postseason quality successful nine history. That was the aforesaid twelvemonth Texas, with Bochy successful his debut, won its archetypal World Series championship.

The Rangers and the 70-year-old Bochy, a four-time World Series champion who was baseball's winningest progressive manager, agreed Monday to extremity his managerial stint astatine the extremity of his three-year contract. That was the time aft Texas finished 81-81 for its 2nd non-winning grounds since its championship.

The Marlins slipped to 62-100 successful 2024 aft changes successful the beforehand bureau and a roster decimated by trades and injuries. Schumaker and the squad agreed that helium wouldn't instrumentality for the 2025 season.

Texas hired Schumaker successful November, a determination viewed by galore arsenic making him the heir evident for Bochy. Schumaker remains nether declaration with the enactment done the extremity of October.

Seven different large league teams are besides looking for caller managers. Young wouldn't accidental if immoderate different teams had requested support to talk with the 45-year-old Shumaker astir their openings.

Asked if determination was interest astir Schumaker successful narration to those different openings, Young said: "I'm not overly acrophobic astatine this point."

Before going to Miami, Schumaker was a seat manager successful St. Louis, wherever helium played for the Cardinals during their 2011 World Series triumph implicit the Rangers. He played 11 large league seasons with St. Louis (2005-12), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2013) and Cincinnati (2014-15).

Rangers wide manager Ross Fenstermaker said that portion Schumaker lives connected the West Coast, helium has been precise progressive with the squad successful his advisory role.

"He'd walk clip with america and galore antithetic folks successful the beforehand office, adhd his perspective, his wisdom. He was astir and disposable a lot," Fenstermaker said. "We astir apt talked to him each fewer days, if not daily, passim the people of the twelvemonth and bounce ideas disconnected him and get his perspective."

Bochy has been offered an advisory relation successful the Rangers beforehand office. He besides could beryllium successful enactment for specified a presumption with the San Francisco Giants, though helium isn't a candidate for the managerial opening of the squad helium led to 3 World Series titles from 2010 to 2014.

With 2,252 wins, Bochy is sixth among each managers, with the 5 up of him each successful the Hall of Fame.