Longtime Dodgers assistant to become new Marlins manager

McCullough brings a variety of credibility to a corporation that badly wants it simply based mostly on his connection to the Dodgers group. McCullough has labored for the Dodgers because the 2015 season in a wide range of roles, together with minor league area 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, it’s also 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 may merely be set as much as fail as a result of he’s about to shortly be taught that going from a big-market powerhouse that has an infinite price range in constructing a staff, to a small-market staff that is among the most frugal and least expensive groups within the league is a really completely different atmosphere.

The Marlins have been 62-100 this season only one 12 months 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 company brief on expertise, brief on cash, brief 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 minimize out for him to make this staff even remotely aggressive.