{"id":941061,"date":"2026-10-26T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941061\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:36:09","slug":"rocco-baldelli-withdraws-name-from-mariners-managerial-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941061\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocco Baldelli Withdraws Name From Mariners&#8217; Managerial Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/mark-polishuk\" title=\"Posts by Mark Polishuk\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Polishuk<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at October 25, 2026 9:25pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>Rocco Baldelli was a candidate to be the Mariners\u2019 next manager, but the former Twins skipper has removed himself from the search due to \u201cfamily considerations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2114541594590286112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The news leaves former Astros manager Joe Espada and Cubs director of player development Jason Kanzler as the only two known candidates remaining for the job.\u00a0 Other unknown names are reportedly in the mix, but Seattle was apparently \u201cin an advanced stage\u201d in the process, as Rosenthal, Chandler Rome, and Patrick Mooney put it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/10\/mariners-interested-in-jason-kanzler-for-managerial-vacancy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mark Polishuk | at October 25, 2026 9:25pm CDT Rocco Baldelli was a candidate to be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,147965,85],"class_list":["post-941061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-rocco-baldelli","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}