Cardinals to name Carlos Marmol as manager after firing Mike Shildt

The St. Louis Cardinals are anticipated to announce Oliver Marmol because the workforce’s subsequent supervisor at a press convention on Monday morning. CBS Sports activities HQ’s Jim Bowden has confirmed the reporting of Katie Woo and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. 

Marmol, 35, served final season because the Cardinals’ bench coach. He is a former Cardinals draftee and minor leaguer who additionally served as a hitting coach within the minors. Marmol additionally boasts managerial expertise on the minor league stage, as he guided Johnson Metropolis and Palm Seashore throughout the Cardinals’ system.

Marmol would instantly grow to be the youngest supervisor presently within the majors. The Padres and Mets have but to fill their vacancies. 

That the Cardinals had a managerial emptiness has been one of many largest surprises of the season. Earlier this month, the workforce introduced they’d parted methods with Mike Shildt, who was contemporary off a 92-win season and postseason berth. Additionally, Schildt’s win proportion of .559 throughout three seasons is the very best determine for a Cardinals supervisor since Johnny Keane’s .560 within the early Nineteen Sixties. 

Given Marmol’s lengthy historical past within the group — lengthy by the requirements of 35-year-olds, at the very least — there is no doubt a deep mutual familiarity. Provided that Shildt’s ouster was owing to, within the phrases of president of baseball operations John Mozeliak, a “philosophical distinction” with the entrance workplace, workforce brass certainly expects no such friction with Marmol. Marmol’s reported hiring additionally suggests he is snug embracing an analytically pushed strategy to his managerial duties and is likewise on board with the data-driven strategies of hitting coach Jeff Albert. 

Expectations in 2022 will probably be excessive for each Marmol and the entrance workplace. The Cardinals return a core of Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado, Jack Flaherty and breakout slugger Tyler O’Neill, amongst others. Additionally, Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina are again for what figures to be a remaining season. 

Marmol would grow to be the franchise’s thirty seventh supervisor since 1900.