The Marlins have reached an agreement to hire former Phillies and Giants manager Gabe Kapler as an a sistant general manager under new president of baseball operations Peter Bendix, Craig Mish of SportsGrid and the Miami Herald. San Francisco dismi sed Kapler following the 2023 season, hiring future Hall of Famer Bob Melvin in his place. that Kapler has been looking for a new challenge in baseball operations since being let go by the Giants and was also in the running to become the Red Sox head of baseball operations before they ultimately hired another former big leaguer, Craig Breslow. This wont be the first foray into baseball operations for Kapler, who served as the Dodgers farm director prior to being named manager of the Phillies. Hes spent the past six seasons as a manager, compiling a 456-411 record between San Francisco (2020-23) and Philadelphia (2018-19) and won NL Manager of the Year honors in 2021. Hell now return to the other Chayce Mcdermott Jersey side of the game, with a primary focus on player development within the Marlins system, . The Marlins dont have a general manager, with the aforementioned Bendix holding the title of president and heading up baseball ops. But Kapler will join Oz Ocampo, Brian Chattin and Daniel Greenlee as the teams fourth executive to hold the title of a sistant GM. Its not the only recent baseball ops hire made by Bendix, who replaced GM Kim Ng after she declined her end of a 2024 mutual option (reportedly because ownership wanted to hire a president of baseball ops to overtake her on the front office hierarchy). Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News earlier this week that Miami hired now-former Rangers a sistant director of baseball operations Vinesh Kanthan as their new director of baseball operations. Changes in the Miami front office figure to continue over the next year, as its common for newly hired baseball operations executives to bring in their own team at times at the expense of holdovers within the department. Bendix and his staff will look to build on the succe s of the 2023 club, which reached the playoffs for the first time (in 162-game season) since the organizations 2003 World Series-winning season. James Mccann Jersey
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