Just 10 days after firing Mike Shildt, the Cardinals have their next manager. The club has reportedly pegged bench coach Oliver Marmol to replace Shildt, who was fired Oct. Marmol has served as the club's bench coach since and has been with the organization since , first as a player and then as a coach. At 35, he'll be the youngest manager in the majors by five years.
He also is younger than two of his franchise's cornerstone players — starting pitcher Adam Wainwright 40 and catcher Yadier Molina Marmol takes over a Cardinals team that went last season and made the NL wild-card game thanks to a game winning streak at the end of the season. He replaces Shildt, who went in his four seasons at the helm and guided the Cardinals to the NL Central Division title.
He also prefers to be called Oli, rather than Oliver, something he confirmed himself. Louis Cardinals franchise history on November 14, He served as a Special Assistant in Player Development for the Cardinals prio rto his being named manager.
Last year,at age 41, Matheny became the youngest active manager in the majors and the youngest Cardinals manager since Jack Krol, who was also 41 years of age when he managed the team in In his first year at the helm, Matheny guided the Cardinals to the National League Championship round of the playoffs, having captured a wild card berth on the next-to-last day of the regular season.
In doing so, Mike became the first rookie manager to lead the Cardinals to the postseason since Eddie Dyer led the Redbirds to a World Championship win over Boston in He joined his predecessor, Tony LaRussa, who was the last Cardinals manager to pilot the team to the playoffs in his first year with the club. A veteran of 13 seasons in the majors, Matheny was drafted out of the University of Michigan by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 8th round of the draft.
Matheny made his Major League debut with the Brewers in and spent five seasons with Milwaukee before signing a free-agent contract with the Toronto Blue Jays in Following his release by the Blue Jays, Matheny signed a free-agent contract with the Cardinals on December 16, and he went on to spend five seasons with the Cardinals from ,earnin gtrips to the post season in four of those five seasons, including a National League Championship in As a Cardinal, Matheny appeared in games at catcher, logging 4, That means a lot coming from someone with three divisional titles and a World Series appearance in his managerial career.
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