The Miami Marlins are hiring Clayton McCullough as their subsequent supervisor, ESPN studies. McCullough turns into the seventeenth supervisor in Marlins franchise historical past and the third since 2022. He inherits a 2024 Marlins group that completed 62-100 and in final place within the Nationwide League East.
McCullough, 44, has served because the Dodgers’ first-base coach since 2021. Previous to that, he managed for a number of seasons within the Blue Jays’ minor-league system. He and Marlins assistant basic supervisor Gabe Kapler crossed over within the Dodgers’ participant growth division. As a participant, McCullough was Twenty second-round alternative by Cleveland in 2002 out of East Carolina College. He then spent elements of 4 seasons as a catcher within the Cleveland system. McCullough by no means reached the majors as a participant, however he did make it to the Triple-A degree in his remaining season of 2005.
The Marlins had been left in quest of a brand new dugout chief after Skip Schumaker left on the finish of the 2024 season. Following the departure of former basic supervisor Kim Ng, who employed Schumaker, and the pivot towards a deep teardown underneath Ng’s substitute, president of baseball operations Peter Bendix, Schumaker’s contract was amended to take away a membership choice for 2025. The transfer was made presumably as a courtesy to Schumaker, who most well-liked to pursue different alternatives in baseball. Schumaker guided the Marlins to 84 wins and a shock playoff berth in 2023, which earned him NL Supervisor of the Yr honors. That, nonetheless, preceded the mighty struggles of 2024.
The Marlins’ near-term fortunes underneath McCullough do not appear particularly promising given the group’s present standing as a rebuilding group, in addition to the doubtful degree of dedication of principal proprietor Bruce Sherman. Presumably, although, McCullough will likely be afforded a degree of persistence with regards to the Marlins’ place within the standings and as an alternative be judged on how he shepherds the event of the Marlins’ younger gamers in place and arriving quickly.
