Oakland A’s Name Former Outfielder Mark Kotsay As New Manager

OAKLAND (AP) – The Oakland Athletics named erstwhile outfielder Mark Kotsay their manager Tuesday to regenerate Bob Melvin, who departed earlier this offseason to negociate the San Diego Padres.

Kotsay receives a three-year declaration done the 2024 season, the team. That besides includes a nine enactment for the 2025 campaign.

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Kotsay is being promoted from 3rd basal manager to negociate the squad for which helium played successful 4 of his 17 large league seasons – from 2004-07.

The 46-year-old Kotsay besides served a stint arsenic seat manager nether Melvin, who came aboard midway done the 2011 play to regenerate Bob Geren.

Kotsay volition beryllium the sixth A’s manager spanning the past 36 years and the 19th manager successful Oakland history.

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The A’s went 86-76 this twelvemonth for 3rd spot successful the AL West and missed the playoffs pursuing 3 consecutive postseason berths.

Oakland won the AL West during the pandemic-shortened, 60-game 2020 play pursuing consecutive wild-card finishes. In the playoffs, the A’s bushed the White Sox successful the wild-card circular to halt a nine-game losing streak successful winner-take-all postseason games – a large league grounds that dated to the 1973 World Series – earlier losing to the rival Houston Astros successful a four-game AL part series.

A first-round prime taken ninth wide by Miami successful the 1996 draught retired of Cal State Fullerton, the well-traveled Kotsay was a vocation .276 hitter with 127 location runs and 720 RBIs for the Marlins, Padres, A’s, Atlanta, Boston, the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee.

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