Guardians bench coach Craig Albernaz has withdrawn his identify from the Marlins’ managerial search, studies ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Each the Marlins and White Sox preferred Albernaz sufficient to contemplate him a finalist of their searches, however Passan suggests Albernaz took his identify out of the bidding in Chicago as properly previous to the group’s hiring of Will Venable. In a separate report, Passan provides that Dodgers first base coach Clayton McCullough remains to be within the combine for Miami’s emptiness. MLB.com’s Christina De Nicola first linked Miami and McCullough about three weeks in the past.
Albernaz, 42, was a minor league catcher within the Rays and Tigers programs from 2006-14. He spent 4 years because the Giants’ bullpen and catching coach and overlapped with then-manager (and now Marlins assistant GM) Gabe Kapler’s time in San Francisco’s dugout. The Guards employed him away from the Giants final offseason — however not after first interviewing him for their very own managerial emptiness (which ultimately went to Stephen Vogt). Albernaz was initially employed because the Guardians’ subject coordinator, however simply 16 days later he was listed because the group’s bench coach once they finalized their complete workers beneath the newly employed Vogt.
McCullough, 44, performed 4 years within the minors earlier than shifting to a minor league teaching monitor. He managed for seven seasons within the Blue Jays’ system and has been with the Dodgers since 2015. Los Angeles initially employed McCullough as their minor league subject coordinator, and he’s been Dave Roberts’ first base coach for the reason that 2021 season.
For the previous few years, McCullough has been broadly seen as a future supervisor. He’s interviewed not solely with the Marlins but in addition the White Sox, Brewers, Guardians, Mets and Royals — rising as a finalist alongside Matt Quatraro for the Kansas Metropolis gig. De Nicola tweets that Dodgers star Mookie Betts has known as McCullough “the very best coach I’ve ever had.” Like Albernaz, McCullough has labored with Kapler up to now, as the 2 overlapped throughout their time within the Dodgers’ minor league teaching ranks.
It’s not clear at this juncture who, past McCullough, remains to be into consideration. Albernaz and Venable had been reported to be among the many group’s finalists earlier this week. Venable, in fact, has since been employed by the White Sox whereas Albernaz has taken his identify out of the working. Different recognized candidates for Miami’s managerial search included Tigers bench coach George Lombard and Luis Urueta, who served because the bench coach beneath Skip Schumaker previous to his current departure from the group.
