{"id":31872,"date":"2025-11-03T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:55:15","slug":"former-sf-giants-manager-becomes-miami-marlins-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31872\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SF Giants manager becomes Miami Marlins&#8217; general manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Miami Marlins promoted Gabe Kapler to general manager on Monday amid a series of front office moves, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Frankie Piliere was promoted to vice president of amateur forecasting and player evaluation initiatives, and Vinesh Kanthan was moved to senior director of baseball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Kapler, who managed the Giants for four seasons before he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/09\/30\/gabe-kapler-responds-to-sf-giants-firing-we-didnt-win-enough-to-satisfy-me-or-our-fans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired with three games remaining in 2023<\/a>, will be the club\u2019s sixth general manager after beginning his tenure with the Marlins in 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/04\/16\/ex-sf-giants-manager-gabe-kapler-discusses-life-in-miami-future-plans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as an assistant GM focusing on player, coaching and staff development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This past season, the Marlins\u2019 minor league system made club history with four different affiliates reaching the postseason at their respective levels. That includes Jacksonville, which claimed the Triple-A National Championship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BNG-L-AS-0504-02.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Miami Marlins assistant general manager Gabe Kapler spends time on the field before their MLB game against the Oakland Athletics at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo\/Bay Area News Group)\" width=\"4000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BNG-L-AS-0504-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10679581\" \/><\/a>Miami Marlins assistant general manager Gabe Kapler spends time on the field before their MLB game against the Oakland Athletics at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kapler spent the previous six seasons as a manager with Philadelphia (2018-19) and San Francisco (2020-23). The Los Angeles-native was also the World Series champion Dodgers\u2019 director of player development from 2015-17, during which he worked with Marlins manager Clayton McCullough.<\/p>\n<p>Miami outperformed many expectations in McCullough\u2019s first season, going 79-83. The Marlins had an over\/under of 62 1\/2 wins before the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.betmgm.com\/en\/blog\/mlb\/mlb-win-totals-odds-predictions-bm23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to BetMGM Sportsbook<\/a>. Their 16 1\/2-win overperformance was the best in baseball, and they won 13 of their final 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an exciting time to be part of the Marlins organization, and I am ready to continue the great work we are doing here, alongside Peter (Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix) and our entire Baseball Operations staff,\u201d Kapler said in a statement. \u201cThe growth and momentum we\u2019ve built are a direct reflection of a clear vision, a strong culture, and an incredible team working together toward a shared goal. I\u2019m proud to help continue that progress and contribute to what\u2019s ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piliere joined the Marlins as director of amateur scouting, overseeing the club\u2019s amateur scouts and draft. And Kanthan, before coming to Miami, spent five seasons with the Texas Rangers organization.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Miami Marlins promoted Gabe Kapler to general manager on Monday amid a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3816,9635,114,123,125,124,3817,22676,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-31872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-inside-sports","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-san-francisco-giants","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}