The Miami Marlins have a brand new supervisor, choosing former Los Angeles Dodgers first base coach Clayton McCullough to interchange Skip Schumaker.
This will likely be McCullough’s first managing job on the Main League stage, whereas he may even be the group’s third supervisor for the reason that begin of the 2022 season, following Schumaker and Don Mattingly.
McCullough brings a number of credibility to a company that badly wants it simply primarily based on his connection to the Dodgers group. McCullough has labored for the Dodgers for the reason that 2015 season in a wide range of roles, together with minor league subject coordinator and an assistant to Gabe Kapler (now the Marlins assistant basic supervisor) when he labored within the Dodgers’ entrance workplace.
He was promoted to the Dodgers’ main league teaching employees in 2021 and has served as their first base coach since then.
Together with some credibility for the Marlins, additionally it is a giant alternative for McCullough to get his first managing job on the highest stage.
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 rapidly be taught that going from a big-market powerhouse that has an infinite finances in constructing a group, to a small-market group that is likely one of the most frugal and most cost-effective groups within the league is a really completely different setting.
The Marlins have been 62-100 this season only one yr after incomes a wild-card spot in 2023 with 84 wins.
The Marlins’ pitching employees 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 taking part in in a division with three powerhouse groups within the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves. McCullough has his work reduce out for him to make this group even remotely aggressive.
