{"id":259355,"date":"2025-11-03T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:44:08","slug":"marlins-promote-gabe-kapler-to-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259355\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins promote Gabe Kapler to general manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Kapler has a new title.<\/p>\n<p>The former player and manager will now become general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/miami-marlins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"miami-marlins\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miami Marlins<\/a>, the team announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The move is a promotion for Kapler, who was previously assistant general manager, and secures his spot as No. 2 on the organizational depth chart behind president Peter Bendix.<\/p>\n<p>Kapler, 50, spent four years managing the San Francisco Giants before being fired late in the 2023 season. He posted a 295-248 record, but his only year guiding the team to a winning record was 2021, when San Francisco won a franchise-record 107 games and the NL West title.<\/p>\n<p>He also managed the Philadelphia Phillies from 2018-19, going 161-163.<\/p>\n<p>Kapler joined the Marlins front office in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood, Calif., native enjoyed a 12-year playing career, playing 1,104 games for the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins are coming off a third-place finish in the NL East at 79-83. They missed the playoffs by four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabe Kapler has a new title. The former player and manager will now become general manager of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-259355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}