The Miami Marlins have a brand new supervisor, choosing former Los Angeles Dodgers first base coach Clayton McCullough to interchange Skip Schumaker.Â
This might be McCullough’s first managing job on the Main League degree, whereas he can even be the staff’s third supervisor because the begin of the 2022 season, following Schumaker and Don Mattingly.Â
McCullough brings a number of credibility to a corporation that badly wants it simply based mostly on his connection to the Dodgers group. McCullough has labored for the Dodgers because the 2015 season in quite a lot of roles, together with minor league discipline coordinator and an assistant to Gabe Kapler (now the Marlins assistant normal supervisor) when he labored within the Dodgers’ entrance workplace.
He was promoted to the Dodgers’ main league teaching workers in 2021 and has served as their first base coach since then.
Together with some credibility for the Marlins, additionally it is an enormous alternative for McCullough to get his first managing job on the highest degree.
That’s the excellent news.
The dangerous information is that McCullough would possibly merely be set as much as fail as a result of he’s about to shortly study that going from a big-market powerhouse that has a limiteless funds in constructing a staff, to a small-market staff that is likely one of the most frugal and most cost-effective groups within the league is a really totally different setting.
The Marlins have been 62-100 this season only one yr after incomes a wild-card spot in 2023 with 84 wins.Â
The Marlins’ pitching workers was decimated by accidents this season, and there’s a probability getting a few of them again will assist. Nonetheless, this is a corporation quick on expertise, quick on cash, quick on spending and enjoying in a division with three powerhouse groups within the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves. McCullough has his work lower out for him to make this staff even remotely aggressive.Â
