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Rangers Part Ways With Coaches Don Wakamatsu, Luis Ortiz

By Sean Bavazzano | October 5, 2021 at 5:47pm CDT

The Rangers have made some coaching changes this afternoon, informing bench coach Don Wakamatsu and hitting coach Luis Ortiz that they will not return to the Rangers dugout in 2022. Whether assistant hitting coach Callix Crabbe and run production coordinator Alex Burg return will be left to the discretion of the incoming hitting coach, per Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News. Other title changes may be on the horizon but invites have been extended to the rest of the current coaching staff.

Wakamatsu has spent the last four seasons serving as Texas’ bench coach and nine seasons overall in a coaching capacity, a tenure that remarkably saw four different managers take the helm. Ortiz meanwhile re-joined the organization as a hitting instructor when Chris Woodward was hired to take over the reigns as manager in 2019.

Change was inevitable for a Rangers team that netted just 60 wins this season and finished with the third-worst record in the sport. While the Wakamatsu release speaks to a desire for an organizational shakeup, the Ortiz release is perhaps more driven by the team’s 84 OPS+ and low offensive ranks. In 2021, the Rangers offense ranked last in the Majors in both OBP and OPS, producing a cumulative line of .232/.294/.375. They were near the back of the pack in most other offensive categories as well. These numbers were actually buoyed by Joey Gallo’s pre-deadline peformance and will no doubt look to be improved upon by whomever the front office tabs as Ortiz’s successor.

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14 Comments

  1. Never Remember

    4 years ago

    Apparently every team lost because of hitting coaches but not pitching coaches.

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  2. Big Hurt

    4 years ago

    Team sucks? Fire the bench coach, that’ll show ’em! Other than reduce budget for sunflower seeds, what does this gain a team?

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    • Oldman58

      4 years ago

      Exactly right

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  3. hd-electraglide

    4 years ago

    What are the official duties of a bench coach anyway? Call “upstairs” to review an umpire’s call ?

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    • When it was a game.

      4 years ago

      I was thinking more of run production coordinator.

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  4. 99socalfrc

    4 years ago

    These guys are being fitted for their Padres uniforms right now.

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  5. outinleftfield

    4 years ago

    How long before Preller hires them?

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    • Rsox

      4 years ago

      Next Padres Manager?

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  6. Yep it is

    4 years ago

    Daniels is the one who needs to be shown the door

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  7. Fire Jon Daniels

    4 years ago

    Don Wakamatsu is a hack. Has been stealing money his entire career.

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    • Fred Park

      4 years ago

      I kind of agree.
      I remember Wak from back when he managed the Mariners. He had something about him that made you want to like him, but it was like a chimera or something, not quite real.
      And I didn’t realize he had stayed around this long.
      Well, Wak is probably not the only hack in MLB I guess.

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  8. Yankee Clipper

    4 years ago

    Another hitting coach succumbs to the bad-year blame-troll.

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  9. Bob333

    4 years ago

    You Can’t Polish A Terd !!!!!!!!

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  10. TheRealMilo

    4 years ago

    So, the hitting coach and bench coach are the problems here? It’s not the fault of the guys who put the roster together or have developed jack squat in 5 ongoing rebuilding years? 5 years since any meaningful baseball and the company line is still “hey, let me tell you about all the great guys we’ve got at A and A+ ball.” This is the absolute worst franchise in MLB.

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