The St. Louis Cardinals announced on Monday, 25 October 2021 that bench coach Oliver (Oli) Marmol has been promoted to general manager replacing fired manager Mike Shildt. Marmol for the past three seasons had been the team’s bench coach and Shildt’s trusted aide.
Now Marmol will be the only active manager in the majors younger than 40. At just 35 years old, Marmol becomes the St. Louis Cardinal’s 51st manager and set a new record as the youngest manager in Major League Baseball. Other candidates for the job were older. Among those mentioned were current team first-base coach, 48-year old Stubby Clapp, and 41-year old Skip Schumaker, a World Series champion as a Cardinal who is working as the Padres’ associate manager.
Marmol was born in Orlando, Florida, descendant of Dominicans.
He is a product made in the Cardinals. The MLB feature says that Marmol knows the organization’s winning ways firsthand and will look to put his own stamp on continuing them.
MLB note on the appointment explains that the Cardinals are putting faith in an individual they have groomed for years. Marmol was the Cards’ sixth-round selection in the 2007 MLB Draft before quickly turning in his playing days for the role of a coach and quickly ascending up the system. Marmol has been Cardinals’ bench coach for the past two seasons and for the past four years has been St. Louis at the big first and third base coach.
Diario Libre reports that Oliver Marmol follows in the footsteps of Dominican managers: Felipe Alou, Tony Peña, Luis Pujols, Manny Acta, Juan Samuel and Luis Rojas.
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26 October 2021