After interviewing 7 potential managers, Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik has selected Oakland’s bench coach Don Wakamatsu. Wakamatsu was on the coaching staff of the Texas Rangers prior to his stint as Bob Geren’s bench coach for the A’s.
Wakamatsu does have four years of managerial experience with most of that coming at the single A level.
As everyone knows, the Mariners were the first team to spend over $100 million on a team that lost 100 games. I don’t know if that means that the talent is there there just needed to be a change in leadership, or if the previous front office just grossly overpaid for a horrible team. I think it’s probably somewhere in the middle. Zduriencik has made it obvious that he plans on setting up the Mariners with a top shelf farm system that can feed the Major League club as well as develop players to deal to other teams.
Now a major piece of Zduriencik’s vision is in place in the form of the Mariner’s new skipper Don Wakamatsu.
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