The Dodgers’ World Collection-winning teaching employees received’t stay completely intact subsequent season.
On Sunday, the Miami Marlins employed Dodgers first base coach Clayton McCullough to be their new supervisor, as ESPN first reported, creating the primary opening on the Dodgers’ teaching employees in two seasons.
A 44-year-old former minor-league catcher, McCullough had spent the final 10 years within the Dodgers group. He’d been first base coach since 2021. He was minor league subject coordinator earlier than that.
The goal of a number of job openings round MLB in current offseasons, McCullough lastly landed his first managerial gig with the Marlins, who’re changing 2023 Nationwide League supervisor of the 12 months Skip Schumaker after his contract expired on the finish of a 100-loss season in 2024.
Along with his duties as first base coach, McCullough was the Dodgers’ lead outfield coach and chargeable for a lot of their base-stealing technique. He and Mookie Betts had a superb relationship, with Betts calling McCullough “the best coach I’ve ever had” after choosing McCullough to pitch to him within the 2023 residence run derby. This 12 months, McCullough was key in Shohei Ohtani’s career-high 59-steal season, going over scouting stories of opposing pitchers’ pickoff tendencies with the $700-million star on a season-long foundation.
Earlier than turning into the Dodgers’ first base coach in 2021, McCullough performed a key position within the membership’s participant growth system throughout Gabe Kapler’s tenure as farm director. Kapler is now an assistant basic supervisor in Miami, which made sweeping entrance workplace, teaching employees and roster adjustments this 12 months underneath new basic supervisor Peter Bendix, who’s a former entrance workplace lieutenant of Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman in Tampa Bay.
It’s unlikely the Dodgers may have another teaching employees adjustments this offseason. Finally week’s MLB basic supervisor conferences in San Antonio, Brandon Gomes mentioned the employees — with McCullough’s candidacy for the Marlins job, apart — would “probably” be again.
Supervisor Dave Roberts can even be returning for his tenth season, and is predicted to barter an extension with the membership this offseason together with his present deal set to run out on the finish of 2025.
