Schumaker to manage Rangers on 4-year deal

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Rangers hired Skip Schumaker arsenic their manager, agreeing Friday nighttime connected a four-year declaration with the erstwhile National League Manager of the Year.

Schumaker's woody was announced aft Chris Young, the team's president of shot operations, acknowledged earlier successful the time that the squad was focused connected an interior campaigner successful its hunt to regenerate Bruce Bochy. Schumaker had been successful a elder advisory relation with the Rangers since past November.

Schumaker, 45, was the 2023 NL Manager of the Year erstwhile Miami went 84-78 and made the 4th postseason quality successful nine history. That was the aforesaid twelvemonth Texas, with Bochy successful his debut there, won its archetypal World Series championship.

"While I attained a bully knowing of the enactment done my beforehand bureau relation this past season, the conversations with Chris Young, [general manager) Ross Fenstermaker, and others this week person lone intensified my involvement successful this opportunity," Schumaker said successful a prepared statement. "I can't hold to statesman the enactment for 2026."

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. That was the time aft Texas finished 81-81 for its 2nd non-winning grounds since its championship. Bochy was astatine the extremity of his three-year contract.

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

Texas past hired Schumaker past November, a determination viewed by galore arsenic making him the heir evident to Bochy.

"We are thrilled to denote this promotion and person Skip starring this nine successful the dugout," Young said successful a statement. "Over his past twelvemonth arsenic a elder advisor to our shot operations group, Skip has proven to beryllium driven, passionate and thorough successful everything helium does. He has a winning tone and energy, and we are fortunate that idiosyncratic truthful highly regarded successful the manufacture has agreed to go our manager."

The Rangers became the archetypal of 8 large league teams to capable a managerial vacancy. Young declined to accidental earlier successful the time if immoderate different teams had requested support to talk with Schumaker.

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

Fenstermaker said portion Schumaker lives connected the West Coast, helium had 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 campaigner for the managerial opening of the squad helium led to World Series titles successful 2010, '12 and '14.

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