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Will Venable, Craig Albernaz Reportedly Finalists For Marlins Manager

By Anthony Franco | October 28, 2024 at 7:35pm CDT

Rangers associate manager Will Venable and Guardians bench coach Craig Albernaz are finalists for the Marlins’ managerial vacancy, report Barry Jackson and Craig Mish of the Miami Herald. It seems the search will come down to one of those two. Mish notes in a separate post (on X) that he’s “not aware” of other finalists, though he leaves the door slightly open for the possibility of a mystery candidate emerging.

If it is indeed down to Venable and Albernaz, they’ll settle on Skip Schumaker’s replacement shortly. (An announcement may not come in the next few days, as MLB discourages teams from releasing significant news on days with a postseason game.) The Herald reports that both Albernaz and Venable are flying to Miami for in-person meetings with owner Bruce Sherman after conducting Zoom interviews for the first round. Jon Heyman of the New York Post tweets that Venable’s latest interview is occurring today.

Venable and Albernaz have been two of the hottest names in this year’s managerial cycle. They’ve both gotten consideration from the White Sox in their search. Venable has interviewed for the Chicago position. It’s not clear if Albernaz has had a formal sit-down with Sox brass or is simply on their list of potential hires.

Neither has major league managerial experience. Venable might have gotten an MLB job by now if he hadn’t taken himself out of consideration in previous offseasons. The former outfielder has a fair amount of experience as the #2 on a coaching staff. He spent two seasons as Alex Cora’s bench coach in Boston and has logged the last two years as an associate manager under Bruce Bochy in Arlington. The 42-year-old, a Princeton product, also logged three years on the Cubs’ staff after ending his playing career in 2016.

Albernaz, 41, did not reach the big leagues as a player. He has less experience than Venable in the coaching ranks as well. He joined the Giants as bullpen and catching coach during the 2019-20 offseason. After four seasons in San Francisco, he made the jump to bench coach for first-year skipper Stephen Vogt in Cleveland.

While Albernaz only has one year in a bench coach role, he’s a known commodity for Miami baseball operations president Peter Bendix and assistant GM Gabe Kapler. Albernaz was a minor league player and coach in the Rays’ organization while Bendix was Tampa Bay’s general manager. His four years with the Giants coincided with Kapler’s managerial tenure.

In other staffing news, MLB.com’s Christina De Nicola reports (on X) that Miami has hired Joe Migliaccio as director of hitting. Migliaccio, who had been with the Yankees as a hitting coordinator, will work in the player development department and oversee the team’s offensive performance at multiple levels. He is not going to be the MLB hitting coach. That role has yet to be filled and will probably wait until the managerial decision. Miami parted ways with Schumaker’s entire staff, including hitting coach John Mabry.

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17 Comments

  1. SFBay314

    7 months ago

    Albernaz Is a lock. Kapler loves him

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    • blueblood1217

      7 months ago

      And he’s a great guy who the players all respect

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  2. IronBallsMcGinty

    7 months ago

    I don’t understand why Chicago isn’t considering Sergio Santos for manager. He’s done a great job in the minors.

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    • User 2952162988

      7 months ago

      I feel the same, he knows their pitching prospects better than anyone, well liked by his team & the SOX FO, and guided Birmingham to lowest team ERA across the entire minors.

      However, Wil Venable is a great candidate that if available merits serious consideration. Princeton grad, AllIvy in two sports, lived overseas as son of longtime major leaguer, played for & tutored by Botchy. If at all possible, he should be their choice if they can outbid Miami.

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  3. truthlemonade

    7 months ago

    Albernaz in the minors was a very poor hitter, but he had very impressive CS%s.

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  4. Texas Outlaw

    7 months ago

    I want Will to be the next Rangers manager.

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    • SFBay314

      7 months ago

      Me too. Give us Bochy back. Hahah

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      • Texas Outlaw

        7 months ago

        Bochy is ours till he retires. Best living manager on the planet.

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  5. Samuel

    7 months ago

    Rays 2.0.

    The Rays got Kevin Cash from Cleveland where he was Francona’s bullpen coach. Both teams were running similar analytical / statcast-oriented systems on a small market budget. Cash has been there for 10 years now.

    Don’t know enough about Venable other than a great rep, and worked under Cora in Boston. Cora is analytically oriented as well, and got along fine with Chaim Bloom……who worked above Marlins GM Bendix in Tampa Bay.
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    Either way, there are going to be a lot of young players coming to the Marlin’s that will be coached up and produce in multiple roles. When they get too expensive the Marlins will sell high and get multiple cheap prospects for them in trade….which they’ll proceed to coach up.
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    Love it!

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  6. Atlanta Jack

    7 months ago

    Why haven’t the White Sox named Venable the manager. Maybe they are waiting for the WS to end.

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    • quonset point

      7 months ago

      They’re probably going to hand the job back to Grady. Sox don’t know how to interview outside the organization, unless it’s Kansas City.

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    • Atlanta Jack

      7 months ago

      Sweet.u

      Reply
  7. Okie_baseball

    7 months ago

    Don’t you do it William. You just sit right there until we can promote you. Stop being so great, nobody likes an overachiever.

    Reality is Will is gone and someone is going to get a good one I think. Fish are probably the better situation right now. Hope he does well.

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  8. racosun

    7 months ago

    I doubt either will be with the team three full years from now.

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  9. DodgerOK

    7 months ago

    Have to start somewhere.

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  10. This one belongs to the Reds

    7 months ago

    I have no skin in the game, but it sounds like Venable has his choice of either (or neither) job.

    Reply
  11. dirkbill1958

    7 months ago

    Director of Hitting sounds fun. “Go hit that guy”

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